Job responsibilities

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore early applications are encouraged.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We welcome applications from candidates who require Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK, and these will be considered alongside all other applications in line with our commitment to equality and inclusion.

Applicants can determine their potential eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship by reviewing the Skilled Worker Visa criteria set out by UKVI on the gov.uk website.

Application Completion

Essential

• ALL sections of application form FULLY completed

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification and/or relevant experience within NHSP
• Post-graduate diploma qualification or equivalent specialist knowledge.

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development which offers evidence of additional professional skills, such as management or leadership
• Certificate in assessing vocational achievement (CAVA)

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience of newborn hearing screening
• Experience of devising staff rotas
• Experience of working with children and parents
• Knowledge of data inputting and web based database
• Experience of handling babies
• Basic management experience
• Appropriate IT skills to enable effective use of computer databases and applications to input and monitor patient information
• The ability to interpret and understand the particular requirements of the patient when handling newborn babies who may have complex needs to enable the screening to take place

Desirable

• Knowledge of hearing problems and how to elicit important information from families
• Experience of staff recruitment and selection
• Knowledge of child protection procedures
• Experience of working in a hospital environment and an understanding of trust policies and procedures

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Essential

• Good communication - verbal/written skills
• Be able to work on own initiative
• Works well with in a team
• Demonstrates understanding of confidentiality
• Participate in standard setting and research projects
• Evidence showing clinical and professional development
• To be able to plan, assess, evaluate and implement patient care
• Ability to prioritise care associated with changing environment/patient demands
• Facilitate learning of others.

Special Attributes and other

Essential

• Shows motivation in developing new skills
• High level of interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate empathy and diplomacy
• Flexible and reliable

Other Requirements

Essential

• Flexibility to work different shift patterns
• The post holder will be required to work at and to travel between different NHS sites. When travelling to different sites there will be a requirement for the post holder to transport expensive specialist screening equipment.
• The post holder will be required to participate in ongoing in house and external clinical training and travel to meetings

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification. NHS experience is essential

Professional Registration

Essential

• o Full Registration with the GMC

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Valid ALS certificate
• Completed CMT training
• MRCP(UK) or equivalent qualification

Desirable

• o Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
• o Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

Essential

• NHS experience is essential
• Experience in General Medicine or Geriatric Medicine
• Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

• Clinical experience as a medical registrar/Resident Medical Officer out of hours.

Management and Administration Experience

Essential

• o Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

Desirable

• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential

• o Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• o Evidence of participation in audit
• o Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients

Desirable

• o Evidence of having conducted a practicechanging audit
• Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• o Original peer-reviewed research publications

Personal Attributes

Essential

• o Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
• o Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
• o Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
• o Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

Desirable

• o Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).