Locum Consultant in HIV Medicine and Sexual Health – 56 Dean Street in London

This is a 12-month fixed-term locum consultant post in HIV medicine and sexual health at 56 Dean Street, the Soho clinic run by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on diagnosing and treating STIs and HIV, managing a personal HIV caseload, and supervising nursing and junior medical colleagues. The clinic sees around 110,000 patients a year and holds the country's third largest HIV cohort, with scope to work in its TransPlus gender dysphoria service. Applicants need a CCT or equivalent and full GMC registration.

What the job involves

• Provide advice, screening, diagnosis and treatment of patients with STIs, including HIV
• Manage their own caseload of HIV patients
• Supervise and support nursing and junior medical colleagues, including management of stable cohorts, seroconversion, treatment starts and switches, and complex or unwell patients
• Provide consultant advice to multidisciplinary teams in HIV and GUM clinics and review complex cases needing senior input
• Deliver and improve outpatient HIV care, and take part in quality improvement, research and clinical trial recruitment
• Take on specific management tasks and contribute to monthly departmental meetings agreed with the Clinical Lead
• Provide educational supervision for the multidisciplinary team, including appraisal of nominated junior staff
• Attend the local HIV multidisciplinary meeting at 56 Dean Street, Wednesday morning educational activities, the virtual clinic and the weekly Directorate HIV resistance meeting
• Contribute to clinical pathway implementation and modernise the HIV care pathway to use resources effectively
• Develop integrated HIV and sexual health services, improve cost efficiency, and introduce new technologies and initiatives
• Develop a special interest clinic (e.g. gender dysphoria, complex PrEP, anoscopy), with an opportunity to work in TransPlus

What’s required

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent, with equivalence confirmed by PMET/GMC by the date set by the Advisory Appointments Committee
• Diploma in HIV medicine
• Diploma in GUM
• MRCP or equivalent
• DFSRH

Registration & licences

• Full GMC registration
• Letter of Competence in subdermal implants (LoC SDI)
• Letter of Competence in intrauterine techniques (LoC IUT)

Experience

• Audit, quality improvement and other clinical governance work
• Clinical and educational supervision
• Broad-based training equivalent to UK CCT in sexual health, contraception and HIV care

Skills & knowledge

• Extensive knowledge and skills in GUM and HIV practice
• Ability to lead change

Nice to have

• Teaching qualification
• Experience developing patient-centred healthcare for people with increased vulnerability or complexity
• Experience in gender dysphoria medicine
• Higher research degree (MD or PhD)
• Training in and practical experience of safeguarding
• Experience working with commissioners at regional or national level to develop services
• Training in management

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