Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine and Sexual

Job Introduction
We are seeking to appoint a Permanent Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) to work at both sites, Scunthorpe and Grimsby.

This post has **5 Programmed Activities** - 4 for direct patient care (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) for service development and leadership. An indicative 5 PA week **over 2 days**.

As a **GUM Consultant**, **your days will be rewarding and diverse. You will join a great department of talented and passionate individuals who you will work closely with, including a GUM Consultant at our Scunthorpe site and a Nurse Consultant at each location, to provide a prevention-focused, integrated sexual health service that meets the needs of the local population.

Our vision is to empower all people living in Northern Lincolnshire to enjoy positive sexual health and wellbeing. Integrated Sexual Health Services provide a range of interventions that enable people to experience healthy sexual relationships.

We require a prevention focused integrated sexual health service that meets the needs of the local population within the boroughs and minimises the need for residents to travel outside of the area; a service that will continually improve education, prevention, testing, treatment, and support services in response to a changing environment of sexual health and relationship needs.

The service will improve sexual health by delivering a range of interventions across the life course; with a focused direction of travel towards prevention, building resilience and self-esteem, along with consistently promoting healthy choices. The service will provide open and easy access, cost-effective, high quality provision for contraception and prevention, diagnosis, and management of sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), according to evidence-based protocols.

Main Responsibilities
- Ensure that clinical services meet and can evidence compliance with relevant clinical standards (legislative, regulatory, and professional best practice requirements)
- Ensure that service-specific clinical policies are adhered to
- Attendance at HCRG Care Group Clinical Governance Meeting
- Participate in training programmes and mandatory training and CPD
- Share learning and discuss clinical issues
- Deal with clinical patient complaints
- Communicate patient/client feedback
- Ensure that the service teams have access to advice and support from relevant experts and teams (internal and external)
- Actively contribute to HCRG Care Groups Sexual Health strategy and improvement initiatives
- Undertake new and follow up consultations including a full assessment of the medical condition, the patient’s concerns and expectations. The post holder will enter full details of history, examination findings, diagnosis and treatment plan in the patient electronic record.
- Follow care pathways for common conditions of Genitourinary Medicine and Sexual Health as recommended by National Guidelines.
- Prescribe treatment only for sexual health problems
- Offer only those treatments or surgical procedures, which are within the scope of the contract between HCRG Care Group and the commissioners
- Ensure that patient or carer’s are informed fully about the condition, answer any questions, supply written information if available and involve them in decisions about the treatment
- Order appropriate investigations, making sure that pathology request are completed correctly
- Take responsibility for seeing and taking action on results as part of a rota with other GUM Staff
- Participate in Audit and evaluation
- Participate in teaching and training, particularly skill transfer to primary care staff
- Undergo annual appraisal and participate in clinical governance
- Undertake all required Postgraduate training and development to maintain skills and revalidation.

**For full Responsibilities please see attached Job Description.**

**Essentials**
- Full Registration with GMC
- Entry on the General Medical Council ( GMC) Specialist Register via one of the following;
- A0 Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Genitourinary Medicine or within 6 months of CCT date
- B0 Certificate of Eligibility Specialist Registration (CESR)
- MRCP,MRCOG or equivalent
- Diplomas in HIV, GUM and DFSRH
- Demonstrates clarity in written and spoken communication
- Good interpersonal skills, courteous to patients and staff at all times
- Enthusiastic team player
- Open and reflective
- Experience of clinical audit
- Effective communication skills, enthusiasm and approachability.
- Commitment to clinical governance.
- Flexible approach to work
- Demonstrate commitment and ability to teach and train clinical staff and medical and nursing students.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

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