Senior Clinical Fellow - Virtual Ward

Integrated Care System; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity exists for a clinical role managing patients on the Virtual Ward. The post involves ensuring high clinical standards while working alongside a multidisciplinary team and contributing to service development. Applicants must have a clinical background with relevant qualifications, including MBBS and experience in a similar environment.

Qualifications

• Over 4 years of NHS experience or equivalent post GMC registration.
• Understanding of national virtual ward frameworks and models.
• Proven audit and quality improvement skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct daily MDTs and post-admission reviews.
• Manage referrals and provide clinical advice.
• Foster relationships within healthcare teams and enhance service development.

Skills

Clinical Advice

Patient Management

Service Development

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRCP

Ongoing CPD

Job description

This is an exciting role providing clinical input to the management of patients on the Virtual Ward (VW) and an opportunity to shape this innovative service as it continues to develop.

The North Middlesex VW has been operating since 2022 and currently has 32 Main Ward and 8 Remote Monitoring beds. VW is supported by a team of ACP Band 7 Nurses, therapists and a Doctor. There is anticipated expansion into a number of new pathways during 2024/25 and a plan to increase both capacity and occupancy.

Support will be provided by the Divisional Medical Director for North Mid in the Community.

Main duties of job

Clinical responsibilities for this post will include a daily 2 hour long MDT; referral management, post admission review, clinical advice and support to the team of Nurses and therapists. This role will be responsible for maintain high clinical standards in the management of all virtual ward in-patients and liaising with specialty teams to ensure timely specialist review.

Service development activities will include: discussions with specialty leads, development and review of proposed pathways and participation in quality improvement.

The role will also have a strategic component: fostering relationships within the North Middlesex acute hospital team, community teams, sector partners and primary care to encourage uptake and participation in development of the virtual ward agenda.

Main duties of the job

Clinical responsibilities for this post will include a daily 2 hour long MDT; referral management, post admission review, clinical advice and support to the team of Nurses and therapists. This role will be responsible for maintain high clinical standards in the management of all virtual ward in-patients and liaising with specialty teams to ensure timely specialist review.

Service development activities will include: discussions with specialty leads, development and review of proposed pathways and participation in quality improvement.

The role will also have a strategic component: fostering relationships within the North Middlesex acute hospital team, community teams, sector partners and primary care to encourage uptake and participation in development of the virtual ward agenda.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Job responsibilities

This is a new post based at North Middlesex University Hospital with some requirement for home visits to patients within the local area.The Virtual Ward is part of the Community Division with close co-working with the Medicine and Urgent Care Division.

DCC will consist of:

Daily Virtual Ward MDT

Post admission review

Review of referrals

Clinical advice and support

With scope for involvement in other specialties in the Trust to be discussed

Person Specification

Education & professional Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent GMC Registration
• Evidence of ongoing CPD and appraisals in line with GMC.
• MRCP
• Knowledge of national virtual ward frameworks and models

Professional Experience

• 4 years NHS experience or equivalent post GMC registration.
• Evidence of previous audit and quality improvement work

Audit

• Evidence of previous audit and quality improvement work
• Able to identify improvement opportunities in a fast changing and evolving new service

Reseach

• Understanding of research methodology and clinical paper interpretation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

North Middlesex University Teaching Hospital

North Middlesex University Teaching Hospital