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Job summary

Main area
Pathology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 3 years
Hours
Part time - 2 sessions per week
Job ref
223-MLC2134
Employer
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princess Royal Hospital/Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Town
Telford/Shrewsbury
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/05/2024 23:59

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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust logo

Clinical Director - Pathology

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Job overview

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s Pathology Centre is looking for a dynamic, caring, and enthusiastic Clinical Director to lead our Pathology team.

The successful applicant will be accountable to the Divisional Medical Director for Clinical Support Services and will be responsible for ensuring the clinical components of pathways are effectively designed, consistently delivered, and continuously improved. They will ensure best practice is applied, patient harm reduced, and service improvement and innovation are promoted in their area of responsibility.

Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.

Main duties of the job

•To provide clinical leadership for Pathology and ensure effective management and support for senior and junior clinical staff.
•To provide clinical leadership representing SATH in Pathology Networking
•To represent this workforce’s needs to the Division through operational and governance systems in support of delivering the Division and Trust’s strategic priorities.
•To be responsible for ensuring that the medical components of the pathways for which they are responsible are effectively designed, consistently delivered, and continuously improved.
•To work with the Quality Improvement & Governance team, and the Patient Safety Team, the Clinical Director has responsibility for prompting effective clinical governance through medical engagement in the specialty.
•To provide strategic oversight of workforce, and work with the Speciality to maximise opportunities to recruit and retain staff through supporting service developments and redesign in clinically and financially sustainable means.
•To develop a workforce plan that supports the replacement of agency staff with substantive staff.
•To implement job planning processes consistent with the NHS England’s Consultant contract standards, overseen by the Division and Medical Director’s office.
•To manage the specialty junior and consultant workforce’s Annual & Study leave in ways that sustain service provision. Short notice sickness will be managed within specialty if cover outside the specialty cannot be secured.

Working for our organisation

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) – all beautiful and unique.

Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes’ drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of  acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.

We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the principal areas of responsibility and may be subject to periodic change.  The job title is not restrictive and the job holder may at any time be required to undertake other duties within their competence beyond the confines of this job description.

The post may change over time to reflect the developing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development of the job holder.  All changes will be discussed with the post holder.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Employed at substantive consultant level and registered with GMC
  • Satisfactory record of Continuous Professional Development
  • Evidence of participation in leadership/management development opportunities

Entry Criteria

Essential criteria
  • Good understanding of driving performance to deliver high quality services and maximise efficiency, within a financially viable Division.
  • Good awareness of wider NHS issues and the implications of NHS drivers on Trust services
  • Sound knowledge of clinical governance and effective systems of medical management such as job planning, revalidation, appraisal and clinical assessment
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in financial management
  • Effective media communication skills

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Angus McGregor
Job title
Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
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