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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Contact

Address: Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; Essex; IG3 8XJ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

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Ref: 395-MED492-24 Vacancy ID: 6384819

Deprescribing Clinic

Closed for applications on: 28-Aug-2024 00:03

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 28-Aug-2024 00:03

Location

Site: Research & Development Department Goodmayes Hospital
Address: Barley Lane
Town: Ilford
Postcode: IG3 8XJ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 1 year (fixed term)
Hours: Part time - 6 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £43,923 - £55,329 pro rata Plus HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar : ST 1-3 or above or equivalent medical qualifications and experience OR Non Medical Band 7 or above prescribing clinician (e.g. a prescribing pharmacist or nurse prescriber))

Specialty

Main area: Pharmacy

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Service - The post-holder will be the principal clinician in the deprescribing service. The service currently has a case load of about 15 -20 patients seen between fortnightly and 3 monthly. There is an aim to expand this clinical service to see 40 patients by Feb 2024.

Duties include:

Assessment of referrals for suitability for the clinic with Professor Moncrieff
Initial assessment of patients and decision on a plan for reduction
Periodic follow-up with patients to assess progress and adjust reduction regimens accordingly
Communication with GPs during the process

You will have an experienced administrator to help with booking appointments, arranging follow-ups and sending letters to GPs, etc. You will have periodic supervision of patients with Professor Moncrieff.

Non-clinical activities:

Supervision of pharmacists and other doctors shadowing the clinic. There are often 1 or 2 and sometimes more clinicians shadowing the clinic. Discussion of relevant cases with these clinicians will help to inform others of deprescribing techniques.
Talks to primary care doctors in the trust. We are trying to communicate what the clinic does to GP practices in the area – this will involve occasional talks to GP practices to advertise what we do.
Administering baseline and progress surveys to patients.
Monitoring of clinic progress. We are required to submit yearly progress reports to the LTC board and monitoring of progress month by month will be a part of the role.

Peer support group. We hold a peer support group on the first Tuesday of the month online from 7 to 8.30pm , co-facilitated by an experienced drug withdrawal peer facilitator

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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.