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Trust Senior Clinical Fellow (ST3) Level, Virtual Hospital

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The VH clinical fellows provide day-day support to the virtual hub supporting the growing team of specialist nurses in the identification, review (in-patient), on-boarding and then monitoring of patients.

The post holder for the VH Fellow role is expected to deliver and maintain the various pathways running within the acute VH Hub.

As such, they must receive and communicate highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information (written and verbal) and will be expected to work to overcome barriers to understanding with senior colleagues, executives, and external stakeholders.

In addition, there's an expectation that the fellows will link with industry partners to review our current technology and RPM solutions (remote patient monitoring) and look to the future to see how we can evolve.

There are significant research opportunities for IT/data literate trainees as we've curated >1000 discharged patients data feeds. Within this there's continuous monitoring streams patient for several key physiological parameters.

Questions around identifying patterns to stratify at risk patients remain to be answered. You will also be encouraged to pursue an affiliated post graduate qualification and to engage with the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI welcome - Faculty of Clinical Informatics).

Dr Keenan was until recently AMD for Innovation and Strategy. Dr Richard Burridge is the newly appointed CCIO.

You will be expected to participate in the daily board rounds, review patients remotely, and occasionally bring patients up to the hospital for in person reviews.

Take and active role in Cardiology and Respiratory MDTs furthermore, you are expected to enhance the vital link between patients on outlier wards with the VH team and the specialist service.

On-call element to be confirmed.

Person specification

Education and qualifications:

Essential criteria

  • MRCP or Equivalent MBBS
  • IT literacy

Knowledge:

Essential criteria

  • Acute GIM competencies
  • Have completed IMT2 or equivalent

Desirable criteria

  • Higher degree: MSc or PhD

Experience:

Essential criteria

  • Ability to work in a team
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable criteria

  • Demonstrated interest in the sub-spec/ themed strand of the post
  • High competency levels in IT, programming and computer literacy

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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Trust Senior Clinical Fellow (ST3) Level, Virtual Hospital

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Watford, UK
Temp

Published on 10/10/2024

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