Consultant Community Geriatrician & Virtual Ward Clinical Lead inBury St. Edmunds inBury St. Edmunds PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust rVOQEPg8
This position requires strong communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively across different health care sectors, and to motivate colleagues in service transformation initiatives. The role also entails developing training programs and overseeing the implementation of advanced monitoring technologies. The Trust aims to expand its community services, including the establishment of an acute frailty assessment unit and closer collaborations with community-based health professionals to provide comprehensive geriatric assessments.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide senior medical leadership and clinical oversight across the adult community teams and virtual ward (hospital at home) services across West Suffolk.
You will work with our locality based, multi disciplinary Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and other services to provide high quality, holistic medical care to enable frail older people to receive treatment safely in community settings.
Our virtual ward (hospital at home) service provides specialist led care for a variety of patients including those with respiratory conditions, frailty, renal, oncology and heart failure. Care is provided in patients' homes using an advanced personal remote monitoring platform, enabling them to avoid hospital and/or to go home sooner.
We are looking for a talented and innovative consultant to make this role their own as our inspirational and forward-thinking community services continue to expand and develop.
9 PAs per week would be preferred, however part time/job share arrangements will be considered.
Interviews to be held on Thursday the 27th February 2025
Please See Full Job Description attached for details
o Work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that patients are fully involved in making decisions about their treatment and care, and that patients, staff and other stakeholders are engaged and involved in the development of services.
o Establish good communication and effective working relationships with colleagues internal and external to the Trust including Primary Care Networks, Suffolk & North East Essex Integrated Care Board, West Suffolk Alliance, NHS England, and clinical and non-clinical colleagues across all sectors of health and care.
o Motivate, influence and persuade clinical and non-clinical colleagues as part of service development and transformation initiatives and projects.
o Develop and deliver training programmes, workshops, briefings and presentations.
o Communicate sensitive or difficult news and challenge existing beliefs and working practices as required.
About us
We are a team of geriatricians looking to expand our services further across the hospital and into the community to enable more older people to benefit from specialist geriatric assessment. We provide acute in-patient services on an elderly care ward, ortho-geriatric services, medical and surgical liaison services, front door assessment and out-patient clinics at the West Suffolk Hospital site. In addition, we provide a falls clinic at a community hospital in Sudbury and oversee care of intermediate care beds in the community hospital at Newmarket and in a nursing home in Bury St Edmunds.
Our priorities for the next 2 years include the establishment of an acute frailty assessment unit to take direct admissions from the community, establishing falls and frailty clinics in peripheral sites, developing models of closer working with community matrons and advanced clinical practitioners in frailty to enable patients to receive comprehensive geriatric assessment closer to home, establishment of a virtual ward and using new technology to provide remote assessment of patients in care homes.
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