Trust Junior Clinical Fellow (SHO, ST1 / 2) Level, Virtual Hospital

The Virtual Hospital at West Herts comprises of collaboration between West Herts and our community partners at CLCH. The purpose of the virtual hospital is to treat acutely unwell patients in the comfort of their own place of residence, by remotely monitoring them and providing home visits where necessary. Our vision is to support the patient's journey in a way that improves overall patient experience whilst also improving bed flow in the acute wards by preventing admission and supporting early discharge.
The role of the junior clinical fellow in the Virtual Hospital is to support the daily management, review and flow of patient on the Virtual Ward.
Currently, the VH offers the following pathways - Heart Function (HF), Asthma, Bronchiectasis and COPD (ABC), Acute Respiratory Infections (soon to be General Medicine instead), Frailty and lastly a small Post-Surgical Colorectal pathway.
Not only do we provide specialist care for our patients, but we work to provide strong wrap around care to prevent readmissions.
We have attracted national attention with Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHSE, recently visiting our hub at West Herts. There's a short YouTube video to give a flavour of what's involved (https://youtu.be/HZZfprv8ZVc )., General ward work and on-going care of in-patients- including remote ward rounds for inpatients.
Review of patients referred to the virtual ward and face to face reviews of inpatients as required, to screen for suitability for VH onboarding.
Maintenance of ward lists.
Attendance to consultant ward rounds.
Attendance at MDTs.

Working for our organisation
With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imaging models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
At West Herts we offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance and the ability to work flexibly.
https://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/flexibleworking/
We kindly invite you to consider submitting an application.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and should you require support or guidance please contact [email protected]
If you are a Service Leaver, Veteran, Military Reserve, Cadet Force Adult Volunteer, or partner/spouse of those serving please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" on the application form.
If you do not hear back within 3 weeks of your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion., The duties of the post will be carried out in conjunction with the Consultant by means of daily ward rounds and follow-up care. The Post holder is expected to undertake appropriate investigations and therapeutic procedures (under supervision).
They will also maintain adequate medical records of the patients' stay in hospital and dictate discharge summaries and enquiries so that they are promptly sent out to the General Practitioner. Patients are admitted from hospital wards or from the community via the SDEC (same day emergency care), Acute Admissions Unit or via specialist clinics.
Audit:
Opportunities to choose new audit from directorate audit programme, or to take part in a rolling audit cycle.
Key relationships include, but are not limited to:
-VH Clinical Lead
-VH GPs and consultants
-VH Assistant Divisional Manager
-Ward clinicians and nurses
-Hub nurses and admin team
-CLCH partners (Rapid response, frailty team, district nursing)