Job Overview
This is a 0.6 WTE post jointly funded by Health Education England working across Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) as part of the Multi-Professional Fellow Programme. This programme allows the Fellow multiple opportunities including a PG cert in Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning, bespoke education and mentorship by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and the ability to develop skills in project management and evaluation.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
Main duties of the job
We are hiring a Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with Community Interface at Frimley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This post involves three days per week in the fellowship role. You will be a member of the Medicine for Older People directorate as well as close interaction with the education department. It is a great opportunity for any applicant interested in gaining experience in service development and transformation. The aim of this fellowship is to establish clear pathways to support early discharge of frail, older patients from ED to their own home. We will be looking at establishing, for example, pathways for community management of fractures at home and integrating community heart failure/COPD and UCR teams. Once pathways are established, they will become part of business as usual. The position requires a postgraduate medical professional at ST1+ level with strong interpersonal and communication skills and a keen interest in acute frailty and individualised care as well leadership and management skills.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Medical management of our frail, older patients should be individualised and, ideally, in their own environment. At Frimley, we have had excellent success with are 2 hour Urgent Community Response Team (Hospital@Home) as well as our Frailty Team. Our patients benefit from both services and, particularly noticeable with the UCR patients, we can see the significant benefits of this individualised, home first approach. We want to improve the interaction between these two teams as well as the assessment of frail, older patients in the Emergency Department. We want to improve the assessment of these patients with appropriate, timely triage and using the home first principle.
You will be sponsored to complete postgraduate certificate level academic studies at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) as an integral part of the role. Fellows will be supported to network and collaborate with colleagues on the programme from different professional backgrounds and across geographical communities in KSS to enhance learning and developments.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* First Medical Degree
* Full GMC registration
* MRCP (UK)
Desirable criteria
* Post Graduate Qualification
SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
Essential criteria
* Professional attitude.
* Good organisational and time management skills with evidence of sound basic clinical skills.
* Excellent communication skills with patients, relatives and staff.
* Experience and ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
* All life support courses in date (ALS, ATLS, APLS or equivalent courses).
* Commitment to education and training. Experience of delivering teaching.
* Experience of audit or quality improvement.
* Interest in leadership.
* Has initiative, is self-motivated, and is able to see projects through.
Desirable criteria
* Educational training course
* Has experience of organising teaching eg. a course
* Experience of delivering simulation training
* Evidence of managerial skills
* Leadership experience
* Posters, presentations, publications
Professional/ Specialist/ Functional Experience
Essential criteria
* 24 Months experience in NHS
* Computer literate
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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