This opportunity is available to internal applicants. The Acute, Emergency and Community Urgent Care Medical Lead is a key member of the senior leadership team, working across pathways and supporting operational, clinical, and service-level medical leadership teams to deliver high-quality services. You will help drive the development and innovation of these services and work to integrate their functions with other services provided by Oxford Health and external partners.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trusts (OHFT) Intensive Community Care Pathway includes services offering same-day, acute, and urgent care as safe alternatives to secondary care. Collaborating with primary and secondary care colleagues, we have established multi-disciplinary ambulatory care units at Witney, Abingdon, and Henley, providing assessment and treatment for acutely and sub-acutely ill adults. Referrals come from primary care, ambulance crews, and other community clinicians working with frail older adults. The units operate Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 20:00, with some units open on weekends and public holidays.
Main Duties
* Provide strategic direction and collaborate with service-level medical leads to develop and better integrate units and services.
* Support workforce planning, learning, and development to achieve shared goals in community-based care pathways.
* Offer senior medical leadership to clinical leads within the ICC pathway, including community urgent care services such as SDEC units, UCR, H@H, and SPA.
* Support teams in understanding clinical risks and decision-making processes to ensure patient-centered care.
* Work with other medical and clinical leads to develop the Single Point of Access (SPA) service and coordinate wider system functions.
* Innovate and develop services to support other areas of acute and emergency care, both internally and externally.
* Undertake clinical sessions within the ICC pathway and other settings as per job planning, providing high-quality clinical care and assessments.
Additional responsibilities include maintaining medical records, supporting referral processes, participating in audits, and liaising with various health and social care services to ensure comprehensive patient care.
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