Senior Leadership Fellow in Ambulatory Care

Successful applicants will develop a job plan in conjunction with a senior Fellowship supervisor which will compose: 80% (0.8WTE) Clinical Work: to include Ambulatory experience across the John Radcliffe (mainly)/ and subject to discussion with supervisor may involve activity in other acute and ambulatory medicine settings in the Trust. This will include short days, long days on call, out of hours weekend work. Specifically, within a not to overnight care (beyond midnight or before 7am). The clinical role gives a great opportunity to work with a wide range of excellent consultants with special skills in ambulatory care. Also will allow to the candidate to collaborate and familiarise with pathways team such as Acute hospital at home. 20% (0.2WTE) leadership/ research/quality improvement : this would give a great opportunity to the candidate to develop leadership skills and to become involved in projects on service development. Those days ambulatory fellow will work close with the AAU clinical lead/matron and the rest of the team to design and complete projects with impact on ambulatory care. All activities will embrace the Trusts vision of patient-centered service transformation and be aligned with the Future Hospital Commissions recommendations for ambulatory care: with greater vertical and horizontal integration of acute services transcending traditional hospital-community and intra-hospital barriers. Such activities will complement Trust service improvement initiatives and will have patient safety and the delivery of high-quality, better safe, compassionate care at their core. The development and embedding of comprehensive ambulatory care pathways for o common and less common discrete medical presentations o complex and/or frail patients, complementing existing services o conditions with existing dedicated pathways but where further embedding, development or a complementary approach is needed to deliver best outcomes and resource use (eg DVT and TIA/minor stroke). Evaluating care through the development and embedding of relevant patient-centred outcome measures, and useful measures of whole pathway resource use Developing systems to support clinicians outside hospital (GPs, ambulance teams) to deliver effective care in the home Introduction and evaluation of pragmatic telemedicine systems Resident Doctor Forum and engagement Be a point of escalation of issues within Acute General Medicine and Geratology from the resident doctor workforce. The AAU is embedded within the research and innovation infrastructure forming the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). Supervision and support is readily available to support projects that are aimed at improving clinical outcomes through changes in service models. Job description Job responsibilities Successful applicants will develop a job plan in conjunction with a senior Fellowship supervisor which will compose: 80% (0.8WTE) Clinical Work: to include Ambulatory experience across the John Radcliffe (mainly)/ and subject to discussion with supervisor may involve activity in other acute and ambulatory medicine settings in the Trust. This will include short days, long days on call, out of hours weekend work. Specifically, within a not to overnight care (beyond midnight or before 7am). The clinical role gives a great opportunity to work with a wide range of excellent consultants with special skills in ambulatory care. Also will allow to the candidate to collaborate and familiarise with pathways team such as Acute hospital at home. 20% (0.2WTE) leadership/ research/quality improvement : this would give a great opportunity to the candidate to develop leadership skills and to become involved in projects on service development. Those days ambulatory fellow will work close with the AAU clinical lead/matron and the rest of the team to design and complete projects with impact on ambulatory care. All activities will embrace the Trusts vision of patient-centered service transformation and be aligned with the Future Hospital Commissions recommendations for ambulatory care: with greater vertical and horizontal integration of acute services transcending traditional hospital-community and intra-hospital barriers. Such activities will complement Trust service improvement initiatives and will have patient safety and the delivery of high-quality, better safe, compassionate care at their core. The development and embedding of comprehensive ambulatory care pathways for o common and less common discrete medical presentations o complex and/or frail patients, complementing existing services o conditions with existing dedicated pathways but where further embedding, development or a complementary approach is needed to deliver best outcomes and resource use (eg DVT and TIA/minor stroke). Evaluating care through the development and embedding of relevant patient-centred outcome measures, and useful measures of whole pathway resource use Developing systems to support clinicians outside hospital (GPs, ambulance teams) to deliver effective care in the home Introduction and evaluation of pragmatic telemedicine systems Resident Doctor Forum and engagement Be a point of escalation of issues within Acute General Medicine and Geratology from the resident doctor workforce. The AAU is embedded within the research and innovation infrastructure forming the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). Supervision and support is readily available to support projects that are aimed at improving clinical outcomes through changes in service models.