Consultant Physician - Interest in Geriatric Medicine & Acute Frailty

at  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction. To participate fully in clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities.
To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies. To participate actively in departmental audits and QIPs, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change. To engage with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.
To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes. To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trusts corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues. To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction. To participate fully in clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
To participate actively in departmental audits and QIPs, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change. To engage with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trusts corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning. You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work.
You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues

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