Virtual Ward Service Manager

A new and exciting opportunity to join our Operational Team for Surgery, Transplant and Anaesthetics as a Virtual Ward Service Manager. Royal Papworth Hospital has collaboratively developed a co-hosted Virtual Ward model with our Partner Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CUH). CUH has a dedicated virtual ward team supporting patients remotely, providing a 24 hour service. The virtual ward at CUH is well established and has cared for over 2500 patients since it's inception in 2022., The Virtual Ward Service Manager will lead the service for Royal Papworth, ensuring the most efficient and effective use of the allocated virtual ward capacity. They will work closely with clinical colleagues through the ward and board rounds to identify suitable patients to be referred to the virtual ward. They will oversee the referrals and ensure safe and efficient practice. They will work closely with CUH operational team to review the service performance and activity through incident, risk and activity reports.

We are looking for a skilled and passionate leader that can work independently to lead and further develop the service to ensure the best use of resources, equity to service users and improved patient experience, whilst providing operational oversight.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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