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Job Overview
An opportunity to become Clinical Lead for Acute Frailty in Older Person Unit (OPU) has arisen. This would be additional SPA to develop and lead the acute frailty service and tackle the challenges this will bring, alongside your clinical time.
Job Overview
An opportunity to become Clinical Lead for Acute Frailty in Older Person Unit (OPU) has arisen. This would be additional SPA to develop and lead the acute frailty service and tackle the challenges this will bring, alongside your clinical time.
Acute frailty is an exciting and dynamic service, in high demand and facing difficult challenges in the current financial climate. We are looking for a passionate, motivated and enthusiastic team player to help shape and deliver the vision for this developing service.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Lead for Acute Frailty will provide strategic clinical leadership and oversight to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care within the Acute Frailty service of the OPU. This role is central to the integration of acute frailty pathways, collaboration with multiple stakeholders, and implementation of service improvements aligned to local and national strategy. The postholder will be responsible for governance, clinical performance, service development, workforce planning, and patient experience within the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and Frailty Flying Squad (FFS) model, working with immediate colleagues and the wider department to deliver the below.
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Person specification
Leadership
Essential criteria
* Evidence of clinical leadership skills in the area of Frailty
* Evidence of MDT and community working to develop and maintain strategic relationships
Operational Performance
Essential criteria
* Facilitate performance review of operational metrics and national benchmarking (SAMBA, SAMIT75)
Workforce development
Essential criteria
* Promotion of teaching and clinical supervision for residents, ACPs and the MDT
* Evidence of audit, research and quality improvement
Service Development
Essential criteria
* Evidence of having delivered strategic oversight for services including business cases and resource planning
Financial Management
Essential criteria
* Evidence of budget management and recruitment and retention of staff
* Evidence of costing for business cases and delivering against financial objectives
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Clinical Lead Acute Frailty Job Description (PDF, 296.4KB)
* Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Veronica Lyell Job title Clinical Lead OPU Email address v.lyell@nhs.net
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Director
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Health Care Provider
* Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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