Specialty Grade Doctor in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Specialty Grade Doctor in Sexual and Reproductive Health, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Cheshire West and Chester service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• MC75-01 £61,542 to MC75-09 £79,038 depending on experience SAS Payscale.
• NHS Pension!
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support , legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
  
  

Job Introduction

We are seeking a passionate and experienced part-time Specialty Doctor in Sexual and Reproductive Health at our Cheshire West and Chester Integrated Sexual Health Service, based on a fixed term basis .

The post will be a part-time (2-3 PA) Specialty Grade Doctor in Integrated Sexual Health (GUM/SRH), with shared office accommodation provided. You must have experience in the clinical management of Sexually Transmitted Infections and meet the person specification for the Specialty Grade .

You will deliver appointments and walk-in ICASH clinics (including “Level 3” GUM care with onsite microscopy) mainly at the Fountains Chester clinic site . LARC and community clinics may also form part of the job schedule, depending on the candidate and the needs of the service . You will be encouraged to take on leadership roles within the service according to their interest and experience.

Clinics will consist of booked appointments for referrals from other members of the clinical team, or GPs and directly booked patient appointments or walk-ins, clinic letters in reply being an expectation for the former . There is no direct in-patient responsibility with this post. You will be expected to work with the multidisciplinary team to identify clinical governance and training needs. T his may include support to the existing Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) local training programme . Therefore, experience in motivating teams and in delivering teaching is essential.

Please feel free to contact Bradley Pearson-Barnard, Deputy General Manager ([email protected]) and Dr Rani Chandy, Specialist Doctor, and Clinical Lead ([email protected]) for a site visit or more information!

Main Responsibilities

• The appointee will participate in Clinical Governance, Clinical Audit, CME and meet the annual CPD requirements of the appropriate Royal College / Faculty.
• HCRG Care Group supports the requirements for continuing professional development and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities .
• The postholder will be required to follow the policies and practices laid down within HCRG Care Group
• The postholder will undertake annual appraisal and ensure they meet the requirements for continuing professional development in line with GMC good medical practice and to meet requirements for revalidation .
• All medical and dental staff employed by HCRG Care Group are expected to comply with its risk management and Health and Safety policies, procedures and guidelines, and information Governance policies .
• All staff are personally responsible for record keeping. A record is anything that contains information and any medium e.g., paper, tapes, computer information etc which have been created or gathered to document NHS activity.
• All individuals within HCRG Care Group are responsible for any records they create. Records must be retained in accordance with the records management policy and stored in a manner that allows them to be easily located in the event of a Freedom of Information request .
• The postholder must ensure complete and accurate data is collected to the highest standard. Data collection should be supported by adequate documentation and processes should be reviewed regularly .
  
  

Please See Job Description Attached For Full List.

Ideal Candidate

• Basic medical qualification registrable in UK and current GMC registration
• Application/acknowledgement of evidence-based practice
• A working understanding of child protection issues
• Minimum of 4 years medical work (either continuously or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification, of which a minimum of 2 years should have been in integrated sexual health specialty or a relevant other specialty including GUM/SRH provision in primary care.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Excellent patient communication
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload and to delegate responsibilities and supervise staff
• Ability to undertake robust audit within team structure
• Ability to motivate and inspire a multi-disciplinary team and work sensitively within teams
• Willingness to work flexibly to support the needs of the service
• Ability to travel
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services . Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here . If you’re keen to join our team , we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks .

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you . If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy .

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