Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine and HIVNHS
Job summary
Are you passionate about delivering outstanding sexual health and HIV care while helping shape the future of integrated services?
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is looking for an enthusiastic Consultant in GUM and HIV to join our forward-thinking and supportive multidisciplinary team delivering services across North Kent.
This exciting substantive post offers the opportunity to work within a well-established integrated sexual health service providing Genitourinary Medicine, HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health care to a diverse population. The successful candidate will join a highly experienced team of consultants, speciality doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are committed to delivering innovative, accessible and patient-focused care.
Our service delivers more than 38,000 patient contacts each year and includes:
Consultant-led HIV and GUM services
Walk-in and booked integrated sexual health clinics
HIV prevention and PrEP services
Specialist contraception and complex SRH services
Outreach and safeguarding programmes
The Kent-wide online STI testing service (SH : UK)
We are particularly interested in candidates who are enthusiastic about clinical leadership, service development, teaching, training, clinical governance and quality improvement.
Come and join Team MTW and help us improve sexual health and wellbeing across the communities we serve.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will:
Provide expert clinical care for patients attending integrated sexual health and HIV services.
Deliver consultant-led GUM, HIV and complex sexual health clinics.
Manage a caseload of patients with complex sexual health and HIV needs.
Support and provide clinical leadership to nurse-led services and multidisciplinary teams.
Lead and develop the department's clinical audit programme and quality improvement activities.
Contribute to service development and implementation of national sexual health priorities.
Participate in clinical governance, risk management and service improvement initiatives.
Provide safeguarding support and expertise for children, young people and vulnerable adults attending the service.
Support undergraduate, postgraduate and multidisciplinary education and training.
Participate in the supervision and development of trainee doctors, medical students and clinical colleagues.
Work collaboratively with colleagues across sexual health, HIV, gynaecology, obstetrics, dermatology, paediatrics, urology, pharmacy and primary care.
Contribute to the strategic development of integrated sexual health services across Kent.
Job description
Weve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.
All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed.
As part of your induction, you will be required to attend face-to-face training sessions and/or complete e-learning modules relevant to your role. If you have previously worked for another NHS organisation before joining Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), we can transfer eligible mandatory training records where appropriate, helping to avoid unnecessary duplication of learning.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is one of the best performing hospital trusts in England. We are regularly in the top five for emergency department performance and offer some of the fastest access to cancer treatment in the country.
We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in west Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 7,000 staff we provide specialist cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.
We operate from three main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital, Tunbridge Wells Hospital and Fordcombe Hospital, and provide outpatient clinics across Kent and East Sussex.
Looking for flexible working?We are a flexible working-friendly organisation. Whether it's adjusting your hours or exploring other flexible arrangements, we want to work with you to find the best solution for you, our patients, and the Trust. Talk to us about how we can accommodate your working needs.
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Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with a employer contribution of 23.7% and life assurance benefits
- Blue Light card eligibility
- And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below