Integrated Care Fellows (ICFs) (FY3+)

Job summary

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Department of Ageing and Health

Integrated Care Fellows (ICFs) (FY3 +)

Clinical Fellows- Older adults ward/ Acute Front door frailty/ hospital@home - 1 post available

One year posts starting 7th August 2024 or as close to this date as possible.

Main duties of the job

Clinical posts Unique out-of-programme FY3+ training rotations in older adults' medicine and frailty pathways from hospital to the community, rotate through three placements; older persons' unit wards, acute ambulatory-OPU in the emergency floor, GSTT hospital @ Home in the community, and one speciality outpatient clinic per week. Also 6 month posts in hospital@home applying medical skills to acute care in the community combined with technology.

All ICFs participate in quality improvement programmes and teach undergraduates.

There is a monthly ICF training programme and a wealth of departmental and directorate educational meetings.

Some roles participate in an on-call rota, currently no role is required to do night shifts. Where roles match IMT requirements , IMT equivalence will be supported.

The posts provide excellent Geriatric & General Medicine training and opportunities to develop research and teaching skills. Ideal for those seeking to determine whether to follow a career in General Medicine, Acute Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, General Practice or Academic Medicine.

About us

Main place of employment:

The posts will be based at the St Thomas's and Guy's site but rotate to GSTT community based sites (in Elephant and Castle and Tulse hill). It is a requirement of your employment that you be prepared to work at any additional or different location owned or served by the trust, either on an on-going or temporary basis according to the demands of the service

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The clinical posts provide experience of practicing medicine across the entire medical care pathway for older adults within community and hospital settings across Lambeth and Southwark. This scheme started in 2017 and has been very successful. The posts provide excellent Geriatric and General Medicine training and are ideal for those seeking to determine whether they wish to follow a career in General Medicine, Acute Medicine, Geriatric Medicine or General Practice. Each 1 year post will rotate through a combination of the Acute Ambulatory-OPU (frailty) (situated within the Emergency floor) and GSTT @ Home (a service providing acute and semi-acute care in patients own homes) and the OPU inpatient wards. Each post also attends one speciality outpatient clinic per week and contributes to undergraduate teaching in older adults medicine at GSTT with opportunities to participate and contribute to SIM training and postgraduate training. 6 month posts are in hospital@home applying medical skills to acute care in the community combined with technology. An opportunity to learn about this growing area of acute medicine.

For an informal discussion, please contact Dr Rebekah Schiff 020 7188 2515/9 ICF programme lead

Interviews w/c 22nd July 2024. If you have not heard from us you may assume you were not short listed.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

Full GMC Registration and hold a license to practice

Desirable

MRCP part 1

BSc or BSc(i)

Clinical Experience

Essential

FY2 or above level clinical experience in General Medicine & Geriatric Medicine

Desirable

Other relevant clinical experience to compliment GP training, previous UK community experience, previous experience in out patient clinics, A and E experience

At least 4 months experience practising in a general medicine speciality in the NHS

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Ability and experience of working as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team Experience in discharge planning

Desirable

Full UK Driving licence

Teaching

Essential

Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate teaching

Desirable

Creation and delivery of under or post graduate teaching modules

Experience of simulation teaching

Teaching qualification

Research

Essential

Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research through journal clubs, personal journal reading

Desirable

Participation in research studies

Evidence of original research

Other

Essential

Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council

Evidence of experience with clinical governance structures such as incident reporting

Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit with implementation of change

Desirable

Experience in clinical guideline development

Management:

Essential

Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management

Desirable

Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services