Clinical Care Home LeadNHS

Job summary

The Lead Care Home Clinician will provide clinical leadership and oversight for the delivery of healthcare services to residents within care homes. The post holder will work collaboratively with General Practitioners, Care Home staff, Community Services, Pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure residents receive high-quality, safe, effective, and person-centred care.

The role involves proactively managing residents with frailty, multiple long-term conditions, and complex health needs whilst supporting quality improvement initiatives and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

The post holder will undertake one day of clinical sessions within the practice each week (this may be subject to change in line with service demand and the practice's appointment requirements), three days conducting care home rounds (with one care home visited per day), and one day dedicated to care home administration and associated responsibilities, i.e. meetings.

Salary will depend on experience.

Main duties of the job

• Undertake weekly ward-round style visits to allocated care homes.
• Conduct medication reviews.
• Lead clinical reviews following hospital discharge, new residents and other correspondence.
• Support anticipatory care planning, including DNACPR discussions and ReSPECT documentation where appropriate.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
• Provide advice and support to care home staff regarding resident health concerns.
• Ensure accurate and timely clinical documentation within patient records.
• Monitor performance against contractual and service requirements.
• Play an active role in NHS England vaccination programs RSV, Season Influenza, Covid etc.
• Qualifications
• Registered Healthcare Professional (Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Advanced Nurse Practitioner).
• Current professional registration with relevant regulatory body, with an Independent Prescribing Qualification.
• Experience
• Significant experience working with older adults and frailty.
• Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• Experience in managing complex long-term conditions.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong understanding of frailty and comprehensive geriatric assessment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and make complex clinical decisions.
• Strong organisational and leadership skills.
• Excellent record-keeping and IT skills.
• Opportunity to make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of care home residents

Job description

The Lead Care Home Clinician will provide clinical leadership and oversight for the delivery of healthcare services to residents within care homes. The post holder will work collaboratively with General Practitioners, Care Home staff, Community Services, Pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure residents receive high-quality, safe, effective, and person-centred care.

The role involves proactively managing residents with frailty, multiple long-term conditions, and complex health needs whilst supporting quality improvement initiatives and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

The post holder will undertake one day of clinical sessions within the practice each week (this may be subject to change in line with service demand and the practice's appointment requirements), three days conducting care home rounds (with one care home visited per day), and one day dedicated to care home administration and associated responsibilities, i.e. meetings.

About us

We are a welcoming, friendly team with approximately 8700 patients.

Our clinical team consists of 3 GP Partners, 1 Salaried GP and 2 Long-Term Locum GP's. We have 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 1 Practice Nurse Lead, 2 Practice Nurses, 1 Healthcare Assistant and a Phlebotomist.

We have 2 Practice Managers who work across both of our sites (Rising Brook Surgery & Chadsmoor Medical Practice).

We have a Reception Manager and 12 Medical Administrators over both sites. We are also a training Practice.

All of our employees are hard-working, and we all strive to deliver excellent patient care at all times.