National Consultant Practice Lead | Full time | Permanent |Homebased
Role Purpose
Our central medical team supports our hospitals and clinics in ensuring the quality and regulatory oversight of the professional standards of the Consultants who work with us. The National Consultant Practice Lead is a pivotal role, leading on the co-ordination and oversight of medical professional standards, including the appraisal and revalidation function for connected doctors. The role is suited to an individual with senior experience of managing professionals, who can demonstrate an excellent knowledge of governance processes, and a balanced and supportive approach to working with individuals and teams.
Key Responsibilities
To act as a credible and skilled point of advice and guidance for medical professional practice and standards
To ensure that robust processes are in place for the granting and review of practicing privileges, with appropriate policy and monitoring systems in place
To provide support and training to PP administrators within hospitals
To support hospitals in ensuring that processes for managing concerns around consultant performance are appropriately managed
To ensure that there are systems in place such that there is a central, up to date record of all consultant concerns that is accessible to the Group Medical Director, Responsible Officer and Associate Medical Directors
To ensure that PMIs and other relevant external bodies are informed of consultant concerns, as per contractual and regulatory requirements
To work with the Revalidation and Appraisal Co-ordinator to ensure that systems of appraisal and revalidation for Doctors connected to Spire are appropriate and managed in line with national guidance and statutory obligations.
To work closely with the Patient Notification Exercise team to ensure that there are strong links between both processes
To drive improvement in processes using Spire Quality Improvement Methodology and Principles
To ensure systems and processes are in place to enable Doctors in Training to work within Spire
To link with HR to ensure that appropriate policies and processes are in place where doctors are employed within Spire Healthcare.
To maintain a close liaison with the GMC and the responsible officers and revalidation/appraisal teams in other independent healthcare organisations and NHS Trusts
To oversee the Medical Governance Coordinator in managing the Medical Professional Standards Committee
To write and contribute to reports, including Board reports, pertaining to the scope of the role
To review, write and develop policies relevant to the scope of the role
Key Stakeholders
Hospital SLTs
Group Medical Director and Associate Medical Directors
Responsible Officer
Integrated Quality Governance team
Legal Team
Consultants
GMC
Candidate Requirements
Essential
Experienced and credible senior leader within a healthcare setting
Experience of managing concerns about senior professionals
Clear knowledge and understanding of the responsible officer regulations and the requirements of revalidation and appraisal
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including board and subcommittee reports
Ability to develop and sustain personal relationships with a wide range of individuals and within groups including consultants and external bodies.
Knowledge of the principles of medical and clinical governance and their application across health services
Experience of matrix working and leadership
Experience of writing patient/public information material
Experience of managing doctor’s appraisals
An understanding of doctor’s appraisals in the post-2012 regulatory environment
Desirable
Experience of doctor’s appraisals in the post-2012 regulatory environment
Experience in Medical HR
Benefits:
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
Free Bupa wellness screening
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
Driving clinical excellence
Doing the right thing
Caring is our passion.
Keeping it simple
Delivering on our promises
Succeeding and celebrating together
We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
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