About this role
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
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within Primary Care, Community Services, Care Homes, or Older People's Services
- Experience managing patients with frailty and complex multimorbidity
- Experience undertaking clinical assessment and decision-making.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
- Experience supporting quality improvement initiatives
Desirable
- Experience leading care home services
- Experience delivering Enhanced Health in Care Homes services
- Experience of clinical supervision or mentoring.
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential Qualifications
- Registered Healthcare Professional (Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Nurse Practitioner).
- Current registration with relevant professional body (NMC, HCPC, GPhC).
- Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
- Independent Prescribing Qualification.
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Assessment Qualification.
- Leadership or Management Qualification.
Experience
Desirable
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Strong clinical assessment and diagnostic skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- Commitment to delivering high-quality patient-centred care
- Competent IT skills including EMIS, Docman, AccuRx, and Microsoft Office
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Rising Brook Surgery
Address
Merrey Road
Stafford
ST17 9LY
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.risingbrooksurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)