Joint Emergency Team (JET) and Greenwich Virtual Ward - Consultant

Joint Emergency Team (JET) and Greenwich Virtual Ward - Consultant

This job description is for a full-time 10 PA postholder. Should any applicant wish to undertake a part-time position, the clinical duties and job plan will be adjusted accordingly. There is no on-call responsibility attached to this post.

The duties of the postholder will include:

• Consultant/GP leadership for JET and the Greenwich VW Team
• Participation in quality assurance and audit projects
• Clinical review of all JET and VW patients though direct assessment or via team board rounds and multidisciplinary meetings
• Clinical supervision of the ACPs in their teams
• 1.5 PA of supporting professional activities for audit work, service development, structured teaching and CPD
• No on-call commitments

The descriptions of the post cannot be exhaustive, and the post-holder may be required to provide Consultant/GP support across the wider community service provision following discussions with the Clinical Director or Service Director, normally these will be broadly in line with the listed key responsibilities. Interested applicants will be able to visit the site and speak to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (the Clinical Director post is currently vacant) and operational colleagues. The postholder will be working closely with the service manager, the Clinical Director, and other key nursing staff to ensure high quality clinical care for the patients and ensure that the service model undergoes continuous improvement utilising the available resources.