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Specialty Doctor - St Peters Inpatient Rehabilitation Ward NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade

Main area Rehabilitation Doctor Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 2 sessions per week (Thursdays only) Job ref 824-HERTS B

Site St Peters Ward Town Hemel Hempstead Salary £59,175 - £95,400 pro rata, plus Fringe HCAS Salary period Session by session Closing 07/07/:59

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.

Job overview

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) is responsible for delivering a patient-focused rehabilitation service for West Hertfordshire. St Peter's Ward provides a dedicated community-based step-down facility, enabling patients to continue their rehabilitation and recovery in a supportive community setting with access to a structured therapy program.

This role involves conducting ongoing assessments for patients who are medically stable but require further evaluation of their health, social needs, and potential future living arrangements, including Continuing Healthcare (CHC) assessments, outside of the acute hospital environment.

St Peter's Ward operates 24/7, ensuring round-the-clock nursing care with access to doctors and therapists during core hours to maintain a high standard of patient support.

Main duties of the job

Manage rehabilitation patients' medical care as the sole medic resident, with Consultant support twice weekly.

Address medical deteriorations under Consultant guidance to optimize rehabilitation, considering frailty and comorbidities; treatment options vary by severity.

Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions through daily patient reviews.

Support patients, families, and carers.

Create a flexible, recovery-focused environment responsive to changing needs.

Conduct patient admissions, including medical histories, examinations, SystmOne note entry, and prescribing.

Perform daily ward reviews and attend ward sweeps.

Assess manageable minor issues in the community.

Maintain timely notes in SystmOne.

Order and review non-urgent tests like blood tests and imaging.

Participate in weekly MDT meetings.

Update families on medical care as needed.

Assess unwell patients referred by nursing/therapy staff.

Advise nursing/therapy staff on medical management.

Collaborate with the ward pharmacist on medication management issues.

Refer patients to specialists or emergency departments as necessary.

Communicate with hospital teams and prepare discharge summaries and TTAs promptly.

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification Education/Qualification

• MBBS or equivalent
• Full registration with the GMC and Licence to Practice (or eligible for)
• MRCP, DGM or equivalent

Experience

• Experience working as a Doctor in a rehabilitation setting
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Experience working with patients with frailty
• Previous experience working in a 'community hospital', rehabilitation service or frailty service would be an asset

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of GMC 'Duties of a Doctor'
• Experience of using SystmOne and ICE

Other

• Ability to manage own workload and work independently as a doctor
• Ability to provide support and supervision for other healthcare professionals
• Ability to lead medical care of patients on Bedded Units

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.