Position title:SMO – Regional Forensic Service
Delegation level:Nil
Responsible to:Assistant Group Manager / Clinical Director,
Location: North Island of New Zealand
Commitment: Minimum of two years
Relocation: NZ$15,000
Paid Vacation: Six weeks
Paid CME: NZ$16,000
Paid CME time off: 10 days
Paid sick leave: 30 days
This position description will be used in conjunction with the Senior Medical and Dental Officers Collective Agreement, and agreed work schedules, clinical duties and outputs targets.
Vision (Te Matakite):
Building healthy communities – Te hanga whaioranga mo te iwi.
Mission (Te Whakatakanga):
We will ensure community involvement at all levels and will focus on:
?increasing wellness through prevention, promotion and awareness activities
?ensuring equitable access to high quality health and disability support services.
Values:
?Acknowledging the diversity of our communities.
?Self responsibility.
?Personal and professional growth of the workforce.
?Inclusive and honest communication.
?Respect for each other.
?Enhancing the health and independence of our people.
?Striving for excellence.
Code of Conduct and Employee Expectations:
?Respect the rights of others.
?Carry out duties in a professional manner.
?Act in a fair, responsible, trustworthy, and legal manner.
?Perform duties honestly with impartiality.
Our code of conduct incorporates the State Services standards of integrity and conduct, and sets expectations relating to employee conduct.
Purpose of the position
?Provides psychiatric services as part of a multi disciplinary team to consumers of the Adult Mental Health Service. This service will at times need to be undertaken:
oIn the home of the service user
oWithin our inpatient environments
oAt locations across the wider service region e.g. prison, remand or correctional facilities.
?Participates in service leadership and development activities.
?Supervise, support and mentor trainees, registrars, MOSS and peers, and where appropriate other Senior Medical Officers and multidisciplinary team members.
Organisational accountabilities
Clinical Activities:
(CanMEDS Medical Expert)
?Provides high quality clinical services as follows:
?To provide high quality consultative, assessment and treatment services within a multi-disciplinary team that are culturally appropriate and in accordance with professional standards and ethics and organisational policy and procedures.
?In accordance with the Mental Health Act (1992), to be the ‘Responsible Clinician’ for service users / tangata whai ora under the employee’s care, and / or when requested by the Director of Area Mental Health Services (DAMHS) and to attend to other legal requirements when requested through appropriate channels.
?To participate and contribute to the multidisciplinary team through active involvement in achieving team objectives.
?To participate in peer review activities consistent with RANZCP CPD guidelines.
?Clinical partnership ensures that patients receive integrated, appropriate, effective and efficient assessment and care.
?Provides supervision for and reviews clinical practice of medical officers, and is responsible for the ratification and/or modification of orders as appropriate.
?Delivers services using best practice methods, as new techniques are developed.
?Utilises and complies with our clinical pathways, protocols and procedures.
?Participates in on call rosters, is available when on call, and provides backup and cover when other specialists from the team are on leave.
(CanMEDS Communicator)
?Maintains clear, respectful and professional communication at all times.
?Acknowledges individual differences and needs of patients and their rights, governed by the Code of rights and Privacy Act 1993.
Performance Measures:
?Maintains good communication with patients and their families.
?Participates with the multidisciplinary team in the development of an integrated care plan.
?Ensures all notes, reports and correspondence are legible and signed.
?Ensures 95% of relapse prevention plans are up to date and developed with service user.
Education, Research and Staff Support:
(CanMEDS Scholar and Professional)
?Undertakes clinical medical education and teaching, and research activities as required.
?Participates in teaching, training, support and mentoring of others.
?Undertakes teaching activities with resident medical staff on an arranged and timely basis, meeting college requirements and our policy and procedural requirements, as applicable to the position.
?Provides supervision for trainees, registrars as applicable to the position.
?Seeks out and is involved in clinical research as agreed with the Clinical Director Mental health & Addiction services and the Service Manager.
?Promotes and participates in regular, timely staff and peer support activities and professional supervision.
?Engages actively in a programme for continuing medical education, and fulfils credentialing requirements.
?Participates in annual performance review process with Clinical Director, and Service manager/ Clinical Unit Leader as applicable to the position.
Performance Measures:
?Is seen by the multidisciplinary team as keen and available for support and mentoring
?Is involved in the training and education of Resident Medical Officers and multidisciplinary team members
?Has presented at training sessions or seminars
?Agreed achievements within annual performance review.
Supervisor:
?Maintain competence & credentialing as a registrar supervisor as applicable to the position.
?Complete supervisor requirements, including documentation.
Quality Assurance, Peer Review, Audit:
(CanMEDS Health Advocate)
?Provides support for and leadership with the services clinical governance framework and/or forum.
?Fulfils requirements for quality assurance, peer review, audit, and undertakes at least one quality assurance/ clinical audit activity per year.
?Regularly attends established Senior Medical Officer clinical review forums and meetings.
?Participates in reviews of patient care, mortality and morbidity meeting
?Participates in peer review processes.
?Results of reviews of and audit are communicated to colleagues, Director of Clinical Units, Clinical Director, Clinical Unit Leader, managers and relevant others.
Performance Measures:
?Up to date CME accreditation with relevant professional body
?Participation in quality assurance forums (as appropriate) within scope of practice, and at least one clinical audit completed annually
Clinical Leadership / Management Duties:
(CanMEDS Collaborator and Manager)
?Work with the Service Manager AMHS, other managers, others SMOs, health professionals, and other key staff to provide a quality service.
?Participates as required in the planning of the service direction (financial and clinical).
?Raises issues of concern with professional and managerial staff as they arise to allow for resolution as soon as possible.
?Assist in the collection of data relating to the service, and participates in the development and review of policies, procedures and protocols within own area of expertise.
Performance Measure:
?Clinical leadership at an appropriate level evident to service manager, clinical director, other SMOs and other health professionals
Senior Medical Officer Duties:
(CanMEDS Professional and Leader)
?Acts in a manner befitting a professional leader.
?Identify, report and if possible mitigate any identified service risks.
?Attends to patient complaints in a timely manner.
?Provides medical reports to external agencies as required by law.
?Provides reports on medical officers as reasonably required by management, including performance reviews, and information required for credentialing and privileging processes.
?Completes required administrative duties.
Performance measures:
?Positive feedback in annual performance review.
?Service risks reported to clinical director and management.
Organisational:
?The CanMEDS Physician Competency Framework is used as the standard for professional reviews.
?Complies with the our Corporate Records Management policy requirement to create and maintain full and accurate records.
?Provides a high quality service, and contributes to quality improvement and risk minimisation activities.
?Complies with legislation and policies for risk management and legal compliance.
?Works in alignment with the Treaty of Waitangi principles of partnership, participation and active protection, and will uphold tikanga best practice guidelines when working with Maori patients and their whanau.
?Follows established Health and Safety and other policies and procedures to ensure the safety of oneself and others.
?Knows department emergency response plan, able to initiate an emergency response and participate in response as applicable to the role.
Professional accountabilities
?Medical Council of New Zealand – A registered medical practitioner as a Specialist Psychiatrist
?Credentialed to work as a Specialist Psychiatrist by the our credentialing committee.
?Medical Specialist means any medical practitioner who is vocationally registered by the Medical Council under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 in one of the approved branches of medicine and who is employed in either that branch of medicine or in a similar capacity with minimal oversight.
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