Speciality Doctor

Job overview

Our diverse, talented and caring team include frailty consultants, consultant advanced clinical practitioners (ACP), GPs, consultants-in-training, ACPs and trainee ACPs from a broad professional background. Together we support a wide range of activities. The Urgent Community Services are co-located and work collaboratively.

Research tells us that people prefer to receive their care closer to home and that most people wish to stay at home for as long as possible.

The seven-day service provides expert frailty advice and input throughout West Kent. Receiving referrals from any clinician, our aim is to provide alternatives to hospital admission for those with a frailty crisis. Near patient testing and hospital-at-home capabilities have allowed us to deliver robust alternatives to ED attendance. Learning from the covid pandemic has allowed us to provide intra-venous therapies as an alternative to acute hospital admission.

At the heart of everything we provide is a holistic assessment. Our team provide domiciliary assessments for frail people at risk of crisis that encompasses a CGA, and anticipatory and advance care planning.

We support the training of care home and primary care staff to deliver holistic assessments of residents and develop individualised anticipatory care plans to reduce unplanned health escalations.

Main duties of the job

The role involves working in collaboration with partners including Primary Care, Secondary Care, Social Care, Mental Health and Commissioners to expand services for frail patients in the community The community frailty service across KCHFT currently consists of geriatric consultants, Specialty Doctors, Consultant Practitioner, GPs, advanced frailty practitioners (ACPs) and trainee ACP’s.  This is a developing service and further members of the team will be considered. West Kent Home Treatment Service is an innovative Multi-Disciplinary Team providing hospital-level treatments for people at home. The team has developed over several years and continues to adapt. We provide CGA, IV treatments, bedside diagnostics, medication reviews; with oxygen & nebuliser therapies when appropriate. A great opportunity to increase clinical skills further for those living with frailty in the current context of increased virtual ward models. We have great links with Acute and Paramedic trusts; an opportunity to deliver patient-centred care requiring a mix of creativity, clinical and communication skills to deliver this.

Additional Working Pattern: 40 hours (10 PA's), part-time considered - includes weekend working

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

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We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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