Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with community Interface | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6277431/151-FPHCF-13 |
Summary
Join our team as a Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with Community Interface at Frimley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing patient care for older adults. This part-time, 12-month fellowship offers a focused opportunity to engage in developing sustainable healthcare pathways that promote early discharge and in-home care for frail older patients. Operating three days per week, this role involves close collaboration with the Medicine for Older People directorate and the Clinical Education department.
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Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and refine patient assessment pathways in the Emergency Department to expedite appropriate triage using a home-first principle.
• Collaborate with both the emergency department's frailty team and the Urgent Community Response team to create and implement effective community management strategies for conditions like fractures and chronic illnesses.
• Analyze and report on patient outcomes to ensure a reduction in hospital stays and enhance overall service efficiency.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job Title:Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with community Interface
Band:Specialty Registrar Level (ST1+)
Duration:12 months, Less Than Full Time (LTFT) – 3 days per week
Salary:£30,000 for 0.6 WTE
Department:Clinical Education and Medical Directorate
Responsible To:Director of Clinical Education & Clinical Tutor
Base Hospital:Frimley Park
We are hiring a Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with Community Interface atFrimley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This post involves three days per week in the fellowship role. You will be a member of the Medicine for Older People directorate as well as close interaction with the education department.The aim of this fellowship is to establish clear pathways to support early discharge of frail, older patients from ED to their own home. We will be looking at establishing, for example, pathways for community management of fractures at home and integrating community heart failure/COPD and UCR teams. Once pathways are established, they will become part of business as usual.
The position requires a postgraduate medical professional at ST1+ level with strong interpersonal and communication skills and a keen interest in acute frailty and individualised care as well leadership and management skills.
Job Purpose:
Medical management of our frail, older patients should be individualised and, ideally, in their own environment. At Frimley, we have had excellent success with are 2 hour Urgent Community Response Team (Hospital@Home) as well as our Frailty Team. Our patients benefit from both services and, particularly noticeable with the UCR patients, we can see the significant benefits of this individualised, home first approach. We want to improve the interaction between these two teams as well as the assessment of frail, older patients in the Emergency Department. We want to improve the assessment of these patients with appropriate, timely triage and using the home first principle.
Job Plan:
• 0.6 WTE (3 days) dedicated to the fellowship role
The part-time nature of this role allows you flexibility in your work life balance and the option to follow other clinical or non-clinical interests in the remainder of your week.
In addition to their salary, the fellow will also be allocated a £650 study budget from the Educational Department.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
We aim to develop a pathway for assessment of all older adults living with frailty to triage them to frailty, UCR or hospital admission. The role of the fellow would be interacting with the emergency department, frailty team and urgent community response team to establish a clear pathway and mode of working that is sustainable beyond the year fellowship. We will be looking at patient experience, reduced hospital admissions, reduced length of stay under UCR team vs expected hospital admission, and reduced time in ED. This project will run over a year long period. It involves the co-ordination of teams that have already been well established and are keen to continue service development for the benefit of their patients.
Person Specification:
Essential:
· First Medical Degree
· Full GMC Registration
· Evidence of recent CPD
Desirable:
· Higher speciality qualifications
· Distinctions/Honours/Prizes
· Post Graduate Qualification
·
PROFESSIONAL/ SPECIALIST/ FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Essential:
· 24 Months experience in NHS
· Computer literate
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in 2022 and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 May 2024