Speciality Doctor in Pain Management

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Demonstrates experience in managing complex chronic pain patients, assessing, formulation and management within a multi-disciplinary team

• Experience

  Demonstrates evidence of autonomous working appropriate to specialist grade

• Experience

  Keeps up to date with current research and best practice in Pain Management, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection

• Leadership and Team Working

  Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour

• Leadership and Team Working

  Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams – promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and inter-professional team working

• Leadership and Team Working

  Time management skills

• Qualifications and experience

  MB Ch B or equivalent

• Qualifications and experience

  FRCA or equivalent

• Qualifications and experience

  Completed advanced training in Chronic Pain

• Qualifications and experience

  Full registration & Licence to practise with GMC (Licence to practise must be in place prior to starting in post)

• Qualifications and experience

  Shall have completed at least four years' full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a less than full-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme or specialty registrar locum appointment for training (LAT)

• Qualifications and experience

  Equivalent training, experience or competencies, either in the UK or overseas

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Demonstrates competences appropriate to Specialist role in Pain Management

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Communicates effectively with multidisciplinary team and is able to share decision-making with patients, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent, ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression

• Professional knowledge and skills

  Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity

• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

  Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary

• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

  Collaborates with multidisciplinary and inter-professional teams to manage risk

• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

  Evidence of involvement in Audit, Clinical governance activity and quality improvement

• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

  Evidence of understanding of safeguarding of vulnerable groups