Consultant in JET and the Greenwich Virtual Ward

Job overview

If you possess expert senior decision-making skills, enjoy direct patient care, have outstanding communication skills and can lead, work and teach an enthusiastic team, this is the job for you.

If you enjoy a challenge and want to make a difference to the quality of care for patients at the interface of primary and acute secondary care, then please apply for this post.

Main duties of the job

Oxleas provides a range of mental health and psychical health services across Southeast London and forensic services within the Southwest of England. This post will support community services for the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

The team will visit patients at home to carry out a comprehensive geriatric assessment, discussing the diagnosis and management plan with the Consultant/GP and treating the patient at home to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital.

The VW team also supports ED and inpatient early supportive discharges. The use of technology-enabled care is well embedded in the team. In conclusion, the work of this team is in line with the government’s 3 shifts: from hospital-to-community, from treatment-to-prevention, and from analogue-to-digital.

Working for our organisation

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

Oxleas recruitment and retention strategy includes offering all Consultants and SAS doctors regular formal structured mentoring by professionally trained mentors.

“We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it’s a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it’s a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people’s lives.”

Ify Okocha

Chief Executive

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This job description is for a full-time 10 PA postholder. Should any applicant wish to undertake a part-time position, the clinical duties and job plan will be adjusted accordingly. There is no on-call responsibility attached to this post.

The duties of the postholder will include:

• Consultant/GP leadership for JET and the Greenwich VW Team
• Participation in quality assurance and audit projects
• Clinical review of all JET and VW patients though direct assessment or via team board rounds and multidisciplinary meetings
• Clinical supervision of the ACPs in their teams
• 1.5 PA of supporting professional activities for audit work, service development, structured teaching and CPD
• No on-call commitments
• The descriptions of the post cannot be exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to provide Consultant/GP support across the wider community service provision following discussions with the Clinical Director or Service Director, normally these will be broadly in line with the listed key responsibilities.

Interested applicants will be able to visit the site and speak to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (the Clinical Director post is currently vacant) and operational colleagues.

The postholder will be working closely with the service manager, the Clinical Director, and other key nursing staff to ensure high quality clinical care for the patients and ensure that the service model undergoes continuous improvement utilising the available resources.

Person specification

Registration

• GMC Registered

Registration

• AC Status

Experience

• Relevant Experience

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Thank you.