Job summary
- Main area
- Medical
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent: consideration upto 0.5PA
- Hours
- Part time - 5 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 388-8321491-M&D
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Torbay Hospital
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £63,696 - £102,689 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
GPwER in Headaches
Specialty Doctor
Job overview
This post will work alongside the existing Neurology team to enhance the outpatient capacity of the service, specific focus on headaches. The postholder will work with commissioners and primary care locally to support development of innovative for managing patients present with headaches.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work alongside the Neurology Team to deliver outpatient-based headache services at Torbay Hospital and some community hospitals, including:
· Assessing new referrals into the headache service
· Providing advice and guidance to GPs
· Reviewing and diagnosis of new patients
· Follow up of existing patients
· Prescribing appropriate medications
· Provision of Botox and GONI
· Supervision of Headache Specialist Nurses
The post holder will be proactive in ensuring that all patients receive rapid assessment, treatment and clinical decision making, whilst ensuring safe, quality care is delivered and sustained.
The job will involve proactively liaising with clinicians, nurses and managers within and outside the Department to address any issues arising that may the affect the service.
We would encourage the successful applicant to develop GPwER competencies and practice with the RCGP approved competency framework.
Working for our organisation
Please note: Priority will be given to applicants with recognised 'Priority' or 'At Risk' status, including NHS staff identified across Devon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration and licence to practice with the GMC
- MRCGP or equivalent
- On the GP Performers’ list and up-to-date with annual appraisal requirements and revalidation
Desirable criteria
- Membership of British Association for the Study of Headaches (BASH)
- Competency in Botox and/or GONI injection tecchnique
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience in managing patients with migraine
- Wide experience of working effectively in an integrated way with multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrates the under-pinning subject-specific competencies, ie knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role, setting and scope
- Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement in management of headaches
Skills
Essential criteria
- Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients, employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and independent/autonomous practitioner
- Ability to demonstrate familiarity and understanding of NHS structures, including awareness of national strategic plans and constraints.
- Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with and confidence in others.
- Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and other professions. Treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
- Demonstrates awareness of good decision-making. Aware of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
- Evidence of interest and experience in teaching including GPs and other health care professionals.
- Demonstrates willingness to teach and supervise trainee roles including doctors and nurses
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research
- Service design and review experience
- Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Medcalf
- Job title
- Specialty Doctor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01803 654910
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