Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology Interest in Metabolic Medicine in London

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care in paediatric hepatology at Denmark Hill, as part of the Child Health care group. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

The post will be based at Denmark Hill and the proposed Job Plan of 10 PAs is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

Main duties of the job:

• The On-Call commitment is for a 1:7 rota (prospective cover), which is classed as Category A. The candidate will be trained to cover the Portal Hypertension Rota within the service.
• All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service.
• As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty.
• Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced.
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
• Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies.
• Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
• King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

General Information:

• You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.
• You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• You are required to observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
• You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
• The postholder has an important responsibility for, and contribution to make to, infection control.
• All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication.
• The Trust is committed to the Health and Wellbeing of all its staff and offer a range of guidance and services to support them.
• This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive.

Person specification:

• MBBS or equivalent
• Full MRCP, MRCPCH or equivalent
• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD or PhD)
• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
• Hold CCT in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and Nutrition or equivalent non UK training qualification; or alternatively will obtain within 6 months of interview date.
• Evidenced Level 3 safeguarding training
• CCT or equivalent in Paediatric Gastroenterology
• Wide experience in all aspects of paediatrics culminating in award of CCT or equivalent in paediatrics
• Training and experience in hepatology and transplantation
• Experience in GI endoscopy and management of varices and PHT
• Experience in day-to-day organisation of tertiary paediatric services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
• Experience of clinical research.
• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.