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Clinical Director for Community Services | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,825 - £90,000 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2024 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6577006/317-SD-24-188 |
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.
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
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity, please contact: Chris Gibbins atChristopher.gibbins1@nhs.net
Closing Date: 16 September 2024
Interview Date: TBC
Management and Leadership:
· Work with senior leaders in Older People’s 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 People’s Medicine and Frailty, Heads of Service of the Older People’s 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024
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