Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To provide a high quality service for patients attending Kings College Hospital with sexual health and contraceptive needs +/- HIV care. This includes all aspects of prevention, testing and treatment as well as relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department. 
   2. To share responsibility for covering colleague’s periods of annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness. 
   3. To provide clinical and educational supervision of junior medical staff, particularly Specialist Trainees and Foundation Doctors, as a shared responsibility with other consultant  colleagues.  
   4. To support the educational development and training of nurses and non-clinical grades within the department 
   5. To be responsible for carrying out teaching and examination duties as required 
   and contributing to continuing medical education and clinical governance initiatives. 
   6. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trust’s 
   R&D framework and the department’s research strategy. 
   7. To contribute to clinical governance, risk management and the departmental 
   audit programme. 
   8. To take an active role in the delivery of the department’s strategy and to lead on service developments within the department that increase access and improve patient experience 
   9. To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Division’s business plan.  This may include assisting with discussions regarding 
   service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies. 
   10. To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan or Sexual Health and HIV services.  
   11. To exercise professional and clinical leadership for all staff working in the specialty.  This will include developing and delivering projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.  
   12. To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the department is increased and their job satisfaction is enhanced.  This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues. 
   13. To undertake management duties as agreed with the Clinical Leads for Sexual Health and HIV or Sexual & Reproductive Health. 
   14. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food 
   hygiene.  
   To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and 
   control. 
   15. To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety. 
   16. To have the general duty of care for the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself, 
   work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post. 
   17. To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s College 
   Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations. 
   18. To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to 
   patients and staff, and to undertake the Trust mandatory consent, confidentiality and data protection training. 
   19. To be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues, as well as maintaining an up to date CPD log with the relevant college. 
   20. To hold an 'nhs.net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for email 
   communication.  You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly. 
   This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not 
   intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.    
   You are appointed to the service of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as  a whole and may be required to work at any of the KCH sites as determined by  the duties of the post or as reasonably directed   
2.       SPECIFIC DUTIES OF THE POST                                                                      1. To undertake outpatient Sexual Health, HIV and general contraceptive clinics. 
   2. To undertake long acting reversible contraception clinics (where a candidate does not have letters of competence in IUD insertion or implant techniques, will need to demonstrate a commitment to achieving these skills). 
   3. To undertake a specialist clinic relevant to special interest of the candidate. 
   4. To undertake general HIV clinics including  HIV emergency clinic and offsite HIV clinics. 
   5. To undertake clinical sessions as ‘Senior Support’ consultant at CSHC ensuring smooth running of the clinic and providing expert advice, support and training  
   6. To provide consultant support and advice for Adult and Child safeguarding for the Sexual Health and HIV service.  
   7. To support the Clinical Lead for Sexual health to ensure sexual health data reporting for surveillance, contract monitoring and service evaluation is robust and accurate. 
   8. To support the Clinical Lead ensuring the Sexual Health service develops to maximise efficiency and increase activity and income. 
   9. To act as a local research lead for sexual health. 
   10. To provide supervision for Speciality Trainees undertaking service improvement projects within the department of Sexual Health and HIV 
   11. To support recruitment to departmental research studies within Sexual Health & 
   HIV.