Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.            Clinical Responsibilities/Key Responsibilities

The appointee will work in collaboration with the members of the Integrated Diabetes Service and the current Diabetes and Endocrinology physicians to provide continuity and high standards of care. The main focus on the role is to work closely with community-based specialists’ team to manage increased complexity within the community.

 2.            Professional Development, Education and Training

·        The duties of this post will also include supporting primary care to manage the large majority of patients with diabetes not requiring secondary diabetes care input. This will involve liaising with GP’s and Practice Nurses, taking part in education programmes for practice staff, responding to email requests from GP’s and Practice Nurses for clinical advice.

·        The appointee will take on the supervision of the GP trainee

·        Integrated Diabetes Team: Education, supervision and regular appraisal

 3.            Management and Leadership

·        To provide medical information for the development of systems appropriate for Trust needs

·        To participate in departmental consultant and senior staff meetings whilst remaining within the framework of the agreed strategy of the Trust and the Department

·        To attend other departmental, Divisional and Trust meetings as necessary

·        To attend regional and national meetings as necessary

·        To undertake all work in accordance with Trust procedures and operating policies

·        To become an active member of the clinical programme group  

 4.            Quality Improvement

·        To promote evidence based practice. To respond appropriately to NICE guidance. To change own and others clinical practice in response to new clinical developments

·        To undertake and supervise relevant clinical audit topics

·        To be involved in risk management and quality assurance

·        To remain up to date and engaged in CME/CPD as per RCP guidelines

·        To respond appropriately to complaints and critical incidents

·        The post-holder will be expected to take part in developing clinical audit in accordance with agreed Directorate and Corporate Clinical Governance programmes.

·        Teaching primary care colleagues, GP trainees, junior doctors and medical students, nurses and other paramedical staff in the team in speciality and special interest

5.            Accountability

·        The post-holder will be immediately accountable to the specialty Clinical Lead / Specialty Director and the Diabetes Clinical Programme Group. Further line management is provided by the Chief of Service for medicine and subsequently the Medical Director

·        Co-operate with the commissioning lead on budget issues. The intention is to have a programme budget for diabetes across primary, community and secondary care

 The purpose of this post is to provide a substantive Consultant for the Integrated Diabetes Service. As a senior employee of the Trust the post-holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to patients with diabetes registered in Gloucestershire.

 The post-holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and well being and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital. This statutory duty is in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with the post.

 Finally, the post-holder is expected to:

 ·        Observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations

·        Observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff

·        Be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues

 6.            Clinical Governance

·        To undertake all work in accordance with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust procedures and operating policies

·        To attend accredited conferences and meetings to update personal level of clinical practice, teaching and management skills in line with CME/CPD requirements

·        To participate in an annual Job Planning Review process

·        To participate in the Trust’s annual Appraisal process and to respond to any identified development needs

·        To adhere to the Trust’s Adverse Clinical Incident Policy

·        Communication: This will include responsibility for and arrangement of communication and liaison with primary care colleagues, other community services and other medical and service departments within the hospital including: General Management, Medical Records

·        Communication with primary care colleagues will include video consultation, telephone discussion of problems and writing of letters about cases seen in the community based clinics

·        Communication with other hospitals and special departments in other hospitals