Consultant – Hospital at Home Service

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTHTR), in partnership with Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT),is expanding our innovative Hospital at Home (H@H) model as part of our system-wide Community Urgent Care offer.

This service delivers hospital-level care directly to patients in their own homes, integrating with our Urgent Community Response (UCR) teams, Frailty, Respiratory, and Acute Medicine Virtual Wards (VW), and other community-based multidisciplinary teams. Our shared goal is to provide patients with safe, high-quality, person-centred care in the right place at the right time -- avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting faster recovery.

The H@H and VW services bring together doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), community nurses, pharmacists, and social care colleagues in a truly integrated team approach. Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries, we aim to ensure each patient receives coordinated, holistic care that meets their physical, psychological, and social needs.

We are seeking proactive and dynamic Consultants, GPs, or Specialty Doctors to lead and deliver clinical care within our expanding Hospital at Home service across Central Lancashire.

Main duties of the job

Some of the duties of the job include:

• Clinical Leadership: Provide senior medical leadership and decision-making within the Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward, and UCR services, ensuring safe, high-quality, person-centred care.

• Assessment & Care Planning: Undertake comprehensive assessments for patients with acute and complex conditions, co-developing personalised treatment and escalation plans.

• Clinical Triage & Treatment: Manage medical treatment and decision-making for patients at home, including those requiring IV therapy, oxygen therapy, or close monitoring for deterioration.

• Early Intervention & Prevention: Work closely with UCR teams to provide timely intervention for patients at risk of admission, supporting safe alternatives to hospital attendance.

• Integrated Care Coordination: Collaborate with hospital, community, and primary care colleagues to ensure continuity and safe transitions between care settings.

• Education & Quality Improvement: Support service development, mentorship, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen the integrated community care model.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience in acute medicine, frailty, respiratory, cardiology, geriatrics, emergency care, or general practice with urgent/community care exposure.

• Demonstrated ability to assess, treat, and manage patients in community or out-of-hospital settings.

About us

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Leyland House

Centurion Way

Preston

PR26 6TY

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Leyland House

Centurion Way

Preston

PR26 6TY

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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