Virtual Wards GP

This service is a collaboration between Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) and the Sussex Federations: Brighton & Hove Federation (BandHF), Alliance for Better Care (ABC) and South Downs Health & Care (SDHC). The Federations will be delivering the GP-led aspect of the Virtual Ward at a place-level to match SCFTs Urgent Community Response service across Sussex. SCFT provides the service in West Sussex, Brighton and Hove and the High Weald, Lewes and Havens area of East Sussex.B&HF are the lead contractor for the GP Service delivery and have sub-contracted to ABC for delivery within the federations geographical areas of Mid Sussex (including Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill and surrounding villages), Worthing and Chichester. Since 2022, SCFT have delivered Virtual Wards (Hospital at Home) in line with the NHS Englands national definition that a virtual ward is a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care and treatment they need in their own home. The Virtual Ward GP role is to act as the senior clinical decision maker within the UCR Team and providing daily clinical leadership. The following duties are the core responsibilities of the Virtual Ward GP: adhering to the timetable of daily scheduled clinical activities holding the responsibility for medical decisions made during the contracted service hours appreciating the complexity of patients with multi-morbidity, frailty and polypharmacy where involving specialists is necessary providing care in line with recommended best practice as established through clinical guidelines providing medical advice and supporting decision making to the members of the wider MDT through all stages of the patient journey. supporting and guiding the development of patient management plans reviewing and prescribing medications, with clinical input from the VW Pharmacy Team proposing the use of digital monitoring where it may be appropriate work with the MDT to support clinical decision-making based on readings from POC or remote monitoring equipment requesting diagnostic investigations and managing test results providing virtual consultations or home visiting where clinically required keeping accurate and contemporaneous documentation. keeping liaising with other health professionals or providers for advice Please see full Job Description attached for further information. The Virtual Ward GP role is to act as the senior clinical decision maker within the UCR Team and providing daily clinical leadership. The following duties are the core responsibilities of the Virtual Ward GP: