Specialty Doctor in ENT

KingstonandRichmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range offantasticopportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level,weare uniquely placed toprovide therightenvironment to support your professional development.With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the firsttrustof our kindin London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for bothoverallquality andleadership.We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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• Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
• Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
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Job overview

We are looking to appoint an innovative and high performing individual to join our well-established and progressive Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Kingston Hospital of Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate would complement a department of multi-disciplinary professionals, (including advanced audiologist practitioners and voice therapists), who collectively deliver acute and elective ENT services, both general and subspecialty, for all disciplines. The service is delivered as part of the Southwest London clinical network, and we have close links with St George’s Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital where patients receive cancer treatment.

Main duties of the job

We also run ENT clinics at Queen Mary’s Hospital and Cobham Day Surgery Hospital. Our Audiology department is fully accredited by UKAS under the IQIPS version 2 standard.

A comprehensive clinical service is provided for the management and treatment of a wide range of diseases and disorders of hearing, balance, voice, swallowing, smell and taste. Our multidisciplinary service is delivered as part of an integrated care network covering South West London and Surrey.

Working for our organisation

Aspen Building, which is a purpose-built outpatient unit at Kingston Hospital provides six examination and interventional procedure rooms, co-located radiology and histopathology clinics for same day FNAs, voice therapy and a full paediatric and adult audiology suite together with associated office and staff facilities.

Queen Mary’s Hospital offers four outpatient consultation and procedure rooms, two audiology consultation and procedure rooms, three sound proofed test booths, an Otoneurology assessment room and hearing aid store.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post offered is a substantive position. The timetable and salary will be dependent on the experience of the successful candidate. There is no on-call commitment.

The reformed health service requires that medics become increasingly involved in the management and administration of resources in their department. The post holder will be expected to work closely with the General Manager and the Clinical Lead in these matters and be active in promoting change to improve the delivery of services to all patients

***Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early***

Person specification

Qualifications

• MBChB
• FRCS
• Full registration with GMC
• MD or equivalent

Clinical Experience

• Multi-disciplinary specialist ENT clinical working within a Hospital setting
• Ability to deal with common emergencies in ENT
• An additional interest which complements the needs of the department

Skills (clinical)

• Knowledge and experience of multi-disciplinary specialist ENT care.
• Expert knowledge within field of clinical speciality
• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teams

Skills (non-clinical)

• Motivated and ambitious
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Understanding of the NHS management structure
• Uderstanding of clinical governance
• Experience of clinical audit and change management
• Teaching experience in different settings
• Understanding of the strategic role of the consultant
• Management and Leadership Training
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and Quality issues
• Evidence of commitment to team building

Teaching

• Experience of post graduate and undergraduate teaching
• Training in teaching

Management and Audit

• Effective participation in Clinical Governance and audit
• Management experience in NHS.

Research / Publications

• Personal experience of research relevant to the specialty
• Ongoing research and audit

Personal skills

• Work independently.
• Team Skills.
• Good organizational skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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