Job summary
This innovative post will provide the Postholder with a unique opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team supporting people to age well.Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the Postholder will work flexibility across a wide range of services within the community, community and intermediate care beds in addition to supporting safe discharge form hospital.
The Post holder will support where appropriate a rapid response function to all setting within the community, enabling continued management of patient within a community setting, preventing avoidable admission/attendance in secondary care.
This role will provide medical advice and guidance to community care colleagues.
The Post holder will work with clinical managers to ensure that services are delivered in accordance to national quality standards.
An Enhanced DBS with Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be obtained during pre-employment checks.
This post involves contact with patients and families face to face within a community setting. Therefore it cannot be ruled out that the postholder may come in to contact with people who have COVID-19, although the Trust provides PPE and takes all reasonable steps to minimise risk.
Main duties of the job
To work flexibly across a wide range of service timetables within a community care setting, providing face to face consultation sessions, clinical sessions, telephone triage, home visits, case management and clinical administration.
To assess, investigate and (where appropriate) undertake clinical reviews, for all referrals to CRT/Intermediate Care Community Services and community beds including frailty assessment.
To review and action diagnostic test promptly.To provide medical support/advice to other primary and community care colleagues. Utilising and asset based approach and promotion of self management to support ongoing care.
To promote and implement "end of life" strategies (Gold Standard Framework etc.), delivering high quality palliative care. To facilitate and support advance care planning including ceilings to care plans
To provide medical input and cover to virtual wards, community beds/residential nursing, EMI care homes, IMC beds, Daily ward round for community beds and home visits.
To work closely with other primary and community care colleagues in locality hubs/teams to deliver high quality patient centred clinical care. This will include where appropriate attendance/participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings (MDTs).
The service is operational seven days a week and own transport is essential for the ability to travel across the borough
About us
Now is a really exciting time to Join our Community Team at Wrightington Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS Foundation Trust, and make a real difference to our elderly patients in the Wigan Borough. The role will be based within the Community Division supporting our community bed units, including the Community Assessment Unit, Jean Heyes Reablement Unit and intermediate care beds. This is a unique opportunity to work across divisions working with Trust and Community teams including Virtual Ward.
We would love to hear from applicants who have already developed a sub-specialty interest within Elderly Care, and those who have not already done so would be encouraged to do so through in-house training/ attending relevant CPD activities. Opportunities are available across in-patient, out-patient and community services with support from the clinical director and divisional management team to build and develop your area of interest.
The Trust has excellent postgraduate and research facilities, supports study leave for CPD and aids with funding up to an agreed limit. WWL NHS Foundation Trust is an Associated Teaching Hospital of the Edge Hill University.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key duties for the job holder
- To provide direct clinical care to older patients accessing hospital services, with a specialist interest in managing frailty related syndromes.
- To work within the department in other sub-speciality interests including ortho geriatrics, virtual wards.
- To participate in departmental teaching and training programmes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key duties for the job holder
- To provide direct clinical care to older patients accessing hospital services, with a specialist interest in managing frailty related syndromes.
- To work within the department in other sub-speciality interests including ortho geriatrics, virtual wards.
- To participate in departmental teaching and training programmes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC as General Practitioner and hold valid licence to practice
- MB, ChB , MRCGP or equivalent certificate of prescribed/equivalent training in general medicine
- Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Desirable
- Additional qualifications in leadership or education
- Post-graduate qualification in related field
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years' experience in general practice post CCT
- Experience of implementing service improvement
Desirable
- Experience at middle grade in Hospital Geriatric medicine
- Experience of leadership
Skills
Essential
- Appropriate and up-to-date skills of a general practitioner with at least 3 years post-CCT experiencems work
- Confidence with Geriatric medicine/Frailty syndromes
- Appropriate digital skills to support working with EPR, managing consultations digitally, participating in online meetings and implementing new pathways that align with a more digitally able NHS
Desirable
- Advanced communication qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Appropriate and up-to-date knowledge of a general practitioner with at least 3 years post-CCT experience
- An understanding of the assessment and management of common geriatric presentations in hospital and frailty syndromes.
- An understanding of comprehensive geriatric assessments
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement in regional or national audit
- Evidence of papers/ presentations at national or international meetings or published in peer review journals
- Teaching qualification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC as General Practitioner and hold valid licence to practice
- MB, ChB , MRCGP or equivalent certificate of prescribed/equivalent training in general medicine
- Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Desirable
- Additional qualifications in leadership or education
- Post-graduate qualification in related field
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 years' experience in general practice post CCT
- Experience of implementing service improvement
Desirable
- Experience at middle grade in Hospital Geriatric medicine
- Experience of leadership
Skills
Essential
- Appropriate and up-to-date skills of a general practitioner with at least 3 years post-CCT experiencems work
- Confidence with Geriatric medicine/Frailty syndromes
- Appropriate digital skills to support working with EPR, managing consultations digitally, participating in online meetings and implementing new pathways that align with a more digitally able NHS
Desirable
- Advanced communication qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Appropriate and up-to-date knowledge of a general practitioner with at least 3 years post-CCT experience
- An understanding of the assessment and management of common geriatric presentations in hospital and frailty syndromes.
- An understanding of comprehensive geriatric assessments
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement in regional or national audit
- Evidence of papers/ presentations at national or international meetings or published in peer review journals
- Teaching qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
Employer's website
http://www.wwl.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
