The post holder will work Trust wide and will provide a comprehensive Oncoplastic Breast Service to the patients of County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust. You will be expected to offer advice on patients to consultants in other disciplines when requested. The post holder will be required to cover for Consultant colleagues in the breast service during normal periods of leave.
Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff is required. The post holder will be responsible for carrying out teaching, examination, and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity locally and where appropriate nationally. All Consultant medical staff have responsibility for the training and supervision of junior medical staff who work with them, and it is expected that time will be devoted to this activity on a regular basis by Consultants.
If appropriate, you will be named in the contracts of doctors in training grades as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as the initial source of advice to such doctors on their careers. The post holder will be required to participate in medical audit and to act on the recommendations arising from such audits.
Opportunities for involvement in appropriate research programmes approved by the Trust's ethics Committee in accordance with the policies laid down from time to time by the Department of Health and NHS England. Collectively, responsibility falls on all Consultants to consult with their colleagues and hence to co-ordinate their individual activities in order that the particular service with which they are involved operates effectively. Accepting such management responsibilities as are mutually agreed between the Consultants and Chief Executive. The post holder will be responsible to the Chief Executive in respect of the reasonable and effective use of Hospital resources and staff.
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