Job Introduction
Are you a dedicated clinician looking for a meaningful role where you can make a real impact in healthcare?
We are seeking a Specialist Doctor to join our team to provide high-quality care within our inpatient units and as required, the Hospital at Home service across Bath and North East Somerset! This is a great opportunity for an established clinical leader looking for the next step in their career or a change in location to be part of a fantastic service which continues to evolve.
In this role, you’ll deliver medical care primarily to older, frail patients with complex medical needs, helping to bridge the gap between hospital and community-based services. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you’ll play a vital role in supporting patients transitioning from acute hospital care to our rehabilitation and stroke beds.
Primarily based on the inpatient unit at St martin's Hospital but able to cover Paulton Hospital when required, you’ll focus on delivering high-quality care within these settings. Looking ahead, there are plans to integrate support for the Hospital at Home service, extending care into patients' homes.
The position is full-time; however, candidates seeking reduced hours are also encouraged to apply and will be considered. The role is primarily Monday to Friday; however, flexibility across 7 days and potentially outside of core hours may be expected, with flexible start and finish times.
Main Responsibility
As a Specialist Doctor, you will:
- Provide medical input and take clinical responsibility for patient care in community hospital inpatient units. Plans for role to include future rotational cover for our Hospital at Home service.
- Examine new admissions promptly, document differential diagnoses, and create management plans in the MDT patient record.
- Collaborate with advanced clinical practitioners, consultants, and the broader MDT; participate in weekly MDT meetings and ward rounds.
- Refer patients to other specialties or clinics in consultation as appropriate.
- Initiate and document advance care planning discussions.
- Manage acute issues during patient rehabilitation.
- Liaise with out-of-hours services as needed.
- Work with the MDT on discharge planning, ensuring safe, effective care.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a Specialist Doctor who has:
- Full GMC Registration (or eligibility), with a current license to practice.
- Relevant qualifications such as MRCP, Diploma in Geriatric Medicine, MRCGP, or an advanced degree (MD, PhD, MSc).
- Minimum of 4 years postgraduate experience, with a background in assessing and treating elderly patients in inpatient or community settings.
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
- Proven commitment to continuing professional development (CPD), with involvement in audits and service improvement projects.
- Skilled in critically appraising new treatments and developments.
- Confident in managing clinical risk within community care environments.
Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.
Package Description
As a Specialist Doctor you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset.
You will feel valued as a Specialist Doctor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary range as per BMA recommended Specialist pay scale
- NHS Pension!
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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