09 Oct
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle upon Tyne
Job description
Job summary
The postholder will support the transformation of planned and unplanned older people's community services within the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals Trust and wider city of Newcastle.
Working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older People's Medicine, the Clinical Chair for Medicine & Emergency Care and Clinical Chair of the Family Health Board, the postholder will oversee the governance, quality and development of primary care services embedded within the Urgent Community Response Team, Hospital Avoidance Team and Specialist Care Home Support Team amongst other community frailty and older people's services.
It is expected that the postholder will provide clinical sessions within the community or older people's medicine services in keeping with their experience and skillset at a minimum of 2 sessions per week.
This post is fixed term for 3 years initially.
Main duties of the job
Clinical :
To manage urgent older people's presentations and ensure that patients are seen and treated by most appropriate healthcare professional
Manage a clinical caseload of older adult patients supported by Geriatricians as required
Work closely with the hospital Older People's Medicine team, community frailty teams and intermediate care
A degree of flexibility will be required in keeping with the variability and demands of the case mix
About us
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity, please contact : Chris Gibbins at C
Closing Date : 16 September 2024
Interview Date : TBC
Job description
Job responsibilities
Management and Leadership :
Work with senior leaders in Older Peoples Medicine and Community Services to transform and manage patient pathways to improve access to timely community care and avoid hospital admission where appropriate
Specifically working in partnership with the Clinical Director of Older Peoples Medicine and Frailty, Heads of Service of the Older Peoples medicine, Acute Medicine and local GP providers of Urgent Care
Work with hospital frailty services to develop new pathways to manage patients from primary care with frailty presentations focusing on how to access timely specialist support for patients and teams
Work with the Clinical Director and Associate Director of Operations responsible for Urgent Community Response and other acute community services to develop responsive and patient centred pathways
Oversee governance,
safety and development of community frailty services that involve primary care and interface with the hospital trust
Attend appropriate departmental, Board and trust business meetings including Clinical Policy Group alongside other Clinical Directors
Provide visible leadership to promote a fair and supportive culture responsive to the needs of the diversity of our patients, visitors and workforce.
Work with external stakeholders across the ICB, region and national networks to improve Urgent & Emergency Care services more widely
To promote Patient and Public Involvement in the design and planning of services.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- CCT in General Practice
Desirable
Experience in a primary care, ICB or acute provider leadership role
Clinical Experience
Essential
Working as a medical practitioner with experience of urgent presentations in older people
Desirable
Older People's Medicine experience
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Board to the Trust and its workforce.
- Experience in clinical service development and innovation
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- Able to communicate well with patients and colleagues.
- An understanding of Clinical Governance.
Desirable
Understanding of management goals.
Teaching
Desirable
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Ability to teach clinical skills.