NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Specialty Doctor Elderly Care/Intermediate Care – Mountnessing Court (Billericay)
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JOB TITLE: Specialty Doctor Elderly Care/Intermediate Care Mountnessing Court (Billericay)
CONTRACT: 6 Programmed Activities
Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Mountnessing Court, 240 Mountnessing Road, Billericay, CM12 0EH
Post And Specialty
This is a well-established post but is vacant due to the previous doctor leaving the organisation.
This is funded as 6 Programmed Activities (6 PAs) post with 5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
This is a substantive, part time (3 days) post and we are also open to consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work with our communities
This post is for a Specialty Doctor position in one of our three Intermediate Care Wards, at Mountnessing Court, 240 Mountnessing Road, Billericay, CM12 0EH
Rationale For Post
This is a well-established post soon to be vacant due to the previous doctor leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Intermediate Care Services in Essex. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.
This is a replacement, substantive, part time 6 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced multidisciplinary team providing care to adults and older people admitted to the Community Hospital Inpatient ward for Rehabilitation and discharge planning. The post holder will be provided with clinical supervision and support from existing consultants.
They will gain experience in managing complex medical and frail elderly patients requiring step down care from acute hospitals across the Mid and South Essex locality.
1.2 Main responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
- To be responsible for the assessment and clerking of new admissions, managing ongoing medical issues and completing electronic discharge letters
- To assist with twice weekly consultant ward rounds and attend once weekly multidisciplinary team meetings for efficient discharge planning.
- To provide clinical response to any emergency clinical issues that might arise.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information using the Systm One electronic medical record as required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
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Clinical Skills
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
- Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
- To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
- To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Training & Supervision
- To act as clinical supervisor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
- Ensure junior colleagues are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
- To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
- To support new staff and their integration within the team.
- To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
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Administration
- To follow good medical practice standards in documenting all assessments of patients and to share necessary information with other health professionals.
- To provide reports on time.
- To ensure that all letters and summaries are checked and sent promptly to referring GPs, other colleagues, and agencies.
- The post holder will ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of all clinical activity.
- The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.
Leadership
- To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
- To actively promote professional integrated health working, internally and externally.
- To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
- To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
- Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
- Lead compassionately on the evolution of services.
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