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Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
About
Our staff are our most valuable asset. We are committed to making staff feel appreciated, supported and included in the Trust’s successes. Our mission is to be an outstanding place to work providing the very best care for our patients and excellent career opportunities for our staff. Everything we do is guided by our core values and behaviours, identified by our staff and embedded throughout the organisation.
We have the highest CQC rating of all Acute NHS Trusts in Kent and Medway (Good). The CQC highlighted that managers promoted a positive culture that supported, valued staff and created a sense of common purpose based upon shared values.
The Trust is a great place to work, stay, develop a career and enjoy a healthy work life balance. We have made and are delivering on a wide range of commitments to staff; health and wellbeing; equality; diversity and inclusion; access to education and career development. During 2020 we set up quality councils, driven by our staff to create a culture of shared governance and quality improvement.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We have a strong focus on innovation and improvement. Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) ‘Healthcare Alliance’ we are introducing new models of care to improve clinical outcomes for patients. Our association with GSTT also gives staff wishing to develop their skills excellent opportunities to work across numerous specialities.
As our local population increases, our services and skills are expanding and adapting to meet demand. We are continuously looking at best practice models to enhance and improve the services we offer.
The Trust provides services at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, for a local population of over 500,000 people.
If you would like to be part of our innovative and forward thinking team putting patients at the centre of all we do, we invite you to #joinourfamily.
Locum Consultant with Hospital and Home Team (HAHT)
Accepting applications until: 05-Jan-2025 08:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Jan-2025 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Address
- Darenth Wood Road
- Town
- Dartford
- Postcode
- DA2 8DA
- Major / Minor Region
- Kent
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a consultant for Hospital @ Home and Acute Medicine services at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.
This new role has been created following the integration of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services, Hospital at Home and community partners to provide the local population with an integrated care pathway.
Successful implementation of SDEC in the new “SDEC Village” alongside the Frailty Assessment Unit and H@H ensures that timely care is delivered whilst avoiding unnecessary admission, reducing duplication and ensuring that sickest patients are prioritised.
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This is a 10PA job (with option of participation in medical on call (1 in 16 )). This post in initially for 1 year with a plan to progress to a permanent post. It is envisaged that this post will evolve to attract more consultant colleagues to support Virtual ward and existing SDEC in the trust.
You will join the lead consultant on the “hot week rota”, providing four weeks in five cover for H@H and will be responsible for coordinating the care of the patients on the Hospital @ Home pathway. You will work with your team of experienced Nurses, Therapists, Pharmacist and Other allied health professionals to provide step up and step down care.
The aim of SDEC @ Home and virtual wards is to achieve a reduction of avoidable hospital admissions and to facilitate earlier, safe discharge of patients from the acute services.
You will work closely with the Acute Medicine colleagues and colleagues in the Frailty Assessment Unit. There will be flexibility in working pattern with the Acute Medical team.
Working for our organisation
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has its headquarters at Darent Valley Hospital (DVH) in Dartford, Kent. DVH is a relatively new purpose built Hospital, which opened in August 2000 and was the first Private Finance Initiative hospital to be completed. The Trust offers a comprehensive range of acute services, with a bed-base of 544, to around 400,000 people in North Kent and South East London.
As an ambitious organisation we are continuously looking for ways to enhance and improve the services that we offer patients. We have been successful in developing an acute care collaborative with Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, allowing us greater service development opportunities under the new ‘Vanguard’ partnership programme. In 2017 we are further develop services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, focusing on planned care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Duties and responsibilities of the post will be;
- Clinical and administrative responsibility for patients in H@H & SDEC.
- Early and appropriate clinical decision making for emergency admissions
- Supervision of admissions into H@H and Virtual ward
- Promoting flow through from the Emergency Department and Step down from wards.
- Supervision and training of junior medical staff and allied health professionals working in the units.
- Ensuring that resuscitation and end of life care issues are appropriately and sensitively managed.
- Development of pathways in conjunction with the team
- Delivery of clinical audits and quality improvement relevant to the needs of the department.
- There will be an opportunity to participate on the GIM on call rota for the post holder
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT)
- Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
- MRCP or evidence of equivalent qualification
- Experience of working in acute and general medicine at Consultant level for 48 months
Desirable criteria
- CCT in general, acute or geriatric medicine
- Prior experience in acute, general medicine and frailty
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Wide experience in all aspects of acute medicine
- Experience of Multidisciplinary Team working at senior level.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients at consultant level
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates ability in managing common acute and chronic conditions, including emergencies
- Experience of providing leadership
- Experience in working in the UK
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clarity in written / spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service innovation and development Demonstrates an understanding of NHS Management and resources.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rupinder Gill
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07896163852
- Additional information
Informal visits
Prospective candidates are invited to visit the Trust by arrangement with: -
Dr Revathi Whittaker Jain [email protected] Tel : 07868709338
Dr Rupinder Gill Email: [email protected] Tel: 07896163852
Dr Aref Rastegar Email: [email protected] Tel: 07549245070
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