Working closely with Care Coordination, Flow Teams, acute hospitals and 111/999 services, you will help develop and improve patient pathways, maximising the use of community services, Hospital at Home and inpatient capacity. You will be responsible for coordinating high-quality, person-centred care across primary, community, acute and social care settings, while maintaining clinical accountability throughout the patient journey and delivering the best possible outcomes for patients with complex healthcare needs.

As Medical Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Providing expert clinical leadership and oversight for patients with urgent, complex and frailty-related healthcare needs across community and inpatient services.
• Delivering high-quality, evidence-based assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and ongoing management, ensuring safe and effective patient care throughout the care pathway.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, including Advanced Practitioners, Consultant Practitioners, therapists and wider healthcare professionals, to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients.
• Supporting the development and optimisation of patient pathways into, through and out of services, helping to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharge from acute settings.
• Partnering with Care Coordination, Flow Teams, 111/999 services and acute hospitals to maximise the use of community services, Hospital at Home and inpatient capacity.
• Leading the coordination of care for patients who would otherwise require hospital admission, ensuring seamless transitions across primary, community, acute and social care services.
• Maintaining clinical accountability for patient caseloads, ensuring appropriate escalation, intervention and management of deteriorating patients.
• Prescribing and review medications in line with clinical need, working closely with pharmacy colleagues to support safe medicines management and discharge planning.
• Acting as a visible clinical leader and role model, promoting excellence, quality and patient safety while supporting collaborative and innovative ways of working.
• Leading appraisals and contribute to the job planning and professional development of medical colleagues within the inpatient units.
• Driving continuous improvement through clinical audit, research, quality improvement initiatives and the implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Fostering a positive learning culture by supporting education, training and development opportunities for colleagues and students.
• Championing a culture of reflection, learning and improvement, identifying opportunities to enhance services and improve patient outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• Full GMC registration with a current licence to practise.
• Significant post-registration clinical experience, including the assessment and management of patients in community and/or inpatient settings.
• Strong experience caring for older adults, frail patients and those with long-term or complex health conditions.
• A proven ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, building strong relationships across services.
• Commitment to continuing professional development (CPD) and maintaining up-to-date clinical knowledge.
• A sound understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and quality improvement.
• Experience contributing to audit, research or service improvement initiatives that enhance patient care.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with patients, families and colleagues.
• Knowledge of current healthcare policy, service developments and innovative approaches to delivering care closer to home.
• Previous leadership, management or quality improvement experience would be advantageous, as would qualifications such as MRCP, MRCGP, Diploma in Geriatric Medicine or a relevant higher degree.

For full details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached Job Description.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Questions About The Role?

If you'd like to find out more about this role or need any support with your application, please contact Louise Ledward, Recruitment Advisor, on 07884 659608, or via email at Louise.Ledward@hcrgcaregroup.com.

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