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You will join Aneurin Bevan University Health Board as a Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Intermediate Care during an exciting period of...
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You will join Aneurin Bevan University Health Board as a Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Intermediate Care during an exciting period of transformation for our services.
This post provides you with an opportunity to be the clinical lead with responsibility for driving forward transformation and service redesign in relation to the provision of appropriate complex care at home for older people across Blaenau Gwent, where step up is required, you will clinically lead the 8 bedded step up direct admission beds located at Ysbyty Aneurin Beavan in Ebbw Vale.
As a key member of the Community Resource Team, the Consultant is responsible for leading and developing new rapid response and direct admission pathways to ensure that those who require complex care are able to receive it in a timely manner and, for ensuring that the highest standards of complex care are delivered to patients in their own homes.
The team has a positive reputation as a service providing a consultant led dynamic , responsive and high quality person centred complex care at home service We have outstanding integrated services which benefit from speciality Doctors, ANP Nurses, Prescribing nurses, Pharmacist, Respiratory Specialist, Physician’s Associate, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Support Workers who constitute our rapid response, discharge to assess, falls and reablement teams.
Demand for our services are growing, you join us at a time of change using key information from the framework for Older People, Strategic Programme for Primary Care, Integrated Care for Older People, place based care and the Older Persons Commissioner’s report – Leave no one behind as our guiding principles to re-design and develop a whole system approach to delivering services for older people in Blaenau Gwent.
You will be a key driver in developing a model that works collectively across organisations to provides both clinical and non clinical interventions for frail, elderly people so that they can stay at, or as close to home as it is safe for them to do so.
Free parking is available across all Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Sites.
This is a permanent position and will be community based
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
This position involves Regulated Activity with children and/or adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
Candidates for Consultant posts must also be on the GMC Specialist Register (including via CESR/European Community Rights) or will have a CCT/CESR(CP) date within 6 months of interview.
This post provides you with an opportunity to be the clinical lead with responsibility for driving forward transformation and service redesign in relation to the provision of appropriate complex care at home for older people across Blaenau Gwent, where step up is required, you will clinically lead the 8 bedded step up direct admission beds located at Ysbyty Aneurin Beavan in Ebbw Vale.
As a key member of the Community Resource Team, the Consultant is responsible for leading and developing new rapid response and direct admission pathways to ensure that those who require complex care are able to receive it in a timely manner and, for ensuring that the highest standards of complex care are delivered to patients in their own homes.
The team has a positive reputation as a service providing a consultant led dynamic , responsive and high quality person centred complex care at home service We have outstanding integrated services which benefit from speciality Doctors, ANP Nurses, Prescribing nurses, Pharmacist, Respiratory Specialist, Physician’s Associate, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Support Workers who constitute our rapid response, discharge to assess, falls and reablement teams.
Demand for our services are growing, you join us at a time of change using key information from the framework for Older People, Strategic Programme for Primary Care, Integrated Care for Older People, place based care and the Older Persons Commissioner’s report – Leave no one behind as our guiding principles to re-design and develop a whole system approach to delivering services for older people in Blaenau Gwent.
You will be a key driver in developing a model that works collectively across organisations to provides both clinical and non clinical interventions for frail, elderly people so that they can stay at, or as close to home as it is safe for them to do so.
Free parking is available across all Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Sites.
This is a permanent position and will be community based
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
This position involves Regulated Activity with children and/or adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:
- Enhanced check with barred list information, including an adults barred list check
Candidates for Consultant posts must also be on the GMC Specialist Register (including via CESR/European Community Rights) or will have a CCT/CESR(CP) date within 6 months of interview.
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