Job summary
- Main area
- Surgery and Cancer
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPB-025
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,068 - £57,570 per annum plus Ldn Weighting and 1B banding
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Registrar for Surgery and Cancer Division
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The chief registrar role provides senior trainees with 40% protected time to develop skills and confidence in leadership, management and quality improvement. Learning that chief registrars gain from the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP’s) bespoke development programme will be put into practice in a supported environment that provides autonomy, flexibility and support to develop and support projects that address key local challenges and priorities. This may include service improvement, engagement and morale, education and training, workforce, and sustainability.
Main duties of the job
- Providing a bridge between senior clinical leaders, managers and the wider trainee workforce to improve communication, engagement and morale
- Involvement in workforce planning and improving the deployment of trainees to meet service needs and improve morale
- Service improvement project to improve patient safety within surgery and cancer.
- Developing and maintaining up-to-date project documentation, and producing periodic progress reports
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The surgical chief registrar will be attached to the Division of Surgery and Cancer. The job will be split with 60% clinical time, allocated to the specialty of the candidate’s experience, and 40% as a leadership and management role.
The leadership role will be across all 5 sites enabling an understanding and development of skills within healthcare management. Successful candidates will be expected to undertake projects in areas such as service improvement, morale, workforce wellbeing and sustainability.
Chief registrars benefit from access to a bespoke development programme provided by the RCP, which runs from September 2024 to June 2025 and comprises five 2-day modules that post holders are expected to attend.
Key areas of responsibility
- Providing a bridge between senior clinical leaders, managers and the wider trainee workforce to improve communication, engagement and morale
- Involvement in workforce planning and improving the deployment of trainees to meet service needs and improve morale
- Service improvement project to improve patient safety within surgery and cancer.
- Developing and maintaining up-to-date project documentation, and producing periodic progress report
This post is for ST4/5 equivalent to do 60% clinical within the department of your specialty plus 40% managerial within the division of surgery and cancer.
The surgical division chief registrar will work with the DD of surgery and DDME on a number of projects.
The chief registrar will also attend departmental and divisional management meetings to gain an understanding of management and the wider social, political and economic influence health care delivery
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- On GMC Register with license to practice MRCS, MRCP, FRCA or equivalent.
Relevant experience in specialty/Sub specialty
Essential criteria
- Must have an NTN training number or LED contract at ICHT
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Competent in basic clinical procedures
- Aware of own limitations, consults senior colleagues appropriately
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in leading quality improvement projects
Language
Essential criteria
- Are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements.
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
- Rachel Bartlett
- Job title
- Divisional Director Of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
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