Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatric Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 364-EPUT677
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Margaret's hospital
- Town
- Epping
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor for West Essex Virtual Hospital Services
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
Would you like to be part of leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care? Why not join Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust for the opportunity to flourish and excel in your career and be part of our dedicated medical team.
This exciting new Specialty Doctor post has been developed to provide consistent, high quality Medical input and clinical leadership to support our established Virtual Hospital (VH) and Urgent Community Response Services (UCR). We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and innovative individual who will work collaboratively with the team to support service demands. We are seeking individuals with a keen interest in acute care and frailty, who would like to develop their skills and expertise with a view to formal training in elderly medicine.
You should be eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold Section 12 (2) approval under the Mental Health Act 1983. You will also need to provide evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in psychiatry at time of application and likelihood of achieving CT2 competences in psychiatry by the start date of the post.
Main duties of the job
The Virtual Hospitals purpose is to deliver care to residents within the local population of West Essex in the adult’s home through a fully integrated community led Virtual Hospital that is capability driven and consultant led with community and acute wrap around service. The remit of the service is to deliver admission avoidance and early discharge. Introducing holistic support in their own home with remote technology available dependent on need. Providing enhanced clinical intervention and monitoring for higher acuity adults that would otherwise need an acute hospital admission or extended stay within acute bedded care, encouraging the adult to be involved in their own care and support their independence in the community. The Virtual Hospital is interdependent on Urgent Community Response services as a first response team.
The post holder will be expected to assist patients remotely in their own homes with nursing teams and ACPs. He/she is also expected to support any in reach services in various surrounding acute hospitals (Princess Alexandra hospital, Harlow as the main site)
The day to day duties include triaging of referrals from either telephone calls or emails and carrying out CGAs (Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment) with MDTs to devise a holistic management plan.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Observe the Trust’s agreed policies and procedures.
2. Provide, with consultant colleagues, a service in the specialty for the Trust with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.
3. Provides support to other junior resident doctors in Continuing Medical Education session in the West Essex Community hospitals and also providing learning sessions to the Clinicians in the Hospital at Home service.
4. Attend various service development programmes including providing presentations about our service to educate the community services including Primary Care Networks throughout West Essex Region and Secondary hospitals every year to encourage the services to identify and utilise our services as part admission avoidance.
5. Provide input into monthly leadership meetings, performs quality improvement projects regularly with Consultant support and support colleagues to participate in QI projects.
3. Honour out-of-hours responsibilities, including rota commitments where contracted.
4. Provide agreed cover for colleague’s periods of leave.
5. Participate in audit and continuing medical education.
6. Contribute to the training of junior medical staff and medical students.
7. Be involved in research and teaching where appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- -Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practice in GIM.
- -MBBS or equivalent experience in Geriatrics in Acute Medicine and working towards MRCP.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- -Ability to offer a specialist clinical opinion on the full range of acute respiratory/cardiology and GIM conditions.
- -Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients, in both in-patient and out-patient settings.
- -Experience in Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance and the benefits of how this improves the quality of care provided to patients and ensuring this is embedded in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- -Established track record in clinical research
- Further sub-speciality experience.
Management/Administrative experience
Essential criteria
- -Evidence of working effectively as a part of a multidisciplinary team.
- -Ability to initiate and lead service developments and comply with all mandatory national audit needs for the speciality.
- -Willingness to be involved in departmental management.
- -Evidence of initiating, progressing and completing audit.
- -Direct and extensive working knowledge of the UK National Health Service.
Desirable criteria
- -Completed basic training in management skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr G Ambe
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07881 827239
- Additional information
For further information about this vacancy, please contact Dr Gamini Ambe, Clinical Director on 07881 827239.
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