Title: Vhi Hospital@Home Physician

Location: Old Naas Road, Dublin 12

Grade: DGP or DSR

An excellent opportunity has arisen within our Vhi Hospital@Home service for a 12-month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. This role will report to the Clinical Lead.

About us

Our purpose at Vhi is to help our customers and patients live longer, stronger and healthier lives. A big part of delivering this purpose is to create a workplace culture where all colleagues feel connected, informed and motivated to do their best work. At Vhi, we have a set of shared values that drive the kind of behaviour we want and that will support colleagues to grow, develop and play a key part in our success.

Leading the way in private healthcare, we now offer an extensive range of healthcare services, including: urgent care, planned care, primary care, health screening, hospital @ home, women’s health, digital health, out of hours emergency dental care, and nurseline 24/7. The efficient running of these services is made possible by our teams of highly skilled healthcare professionals.

Salary and Benefits

In addition to offering a competitive basic salary, the offer comes with the following benefits:

Health Insurance: Top of the range cover for yourself and your family
Pension: Up to 10% employer contribution
Income Continuance: 3 months full pay and half pay from thereafter up to 6 months
Other Benefits: Life Assurance
Medical indemnity: paid for by Vhi

In addition, Vhi offers a range of services and programs designed to support your physical, mental, and emotional health. Services include the Vhi 360 health centre with lifestyle and complementary therapies, an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering counselling, coaching, and expert advice, and individual support such as mindfulness resources and health coaching.

What will you do:

Role Purpose

To provide effective, efficient and appropriate professional clinical care to patients of Vhi Hospital@Home. Hospital@Home one of Vhi’s key service areas with a planned expansion and development over coming years to enhance current provision. This role offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a team working on the development of pathways, enhanced scope and wider geographical footprint using a combination of strong clinical knowledge and Leadership and innovation.

This role may be interest to you if:

You are a GP with an interest in acute care / supporting early discharge from hospital-based services
A Registrar / SHO who would like to experience acute care within a community setting with opportunities for collaboration, innovation and service development

Key Accountabilities

Deliver and Develop Hospital at Home services within the Vhi network, providing clinical care in the patients homes in collaboration with referring Physicians/Hospital Consultants
Support an integrated care approach across Vhi H&W and related services
Review all patients in their homes on admission to the service and collaborate with referring teams
Support the Senior Nurse Managers and Clinical Lead to ensure adherence to operational standards and prioritization of tasks.
Champion clinical excellence and patient-centric healthcare engaging voice of customer and capturing patient reported outcomes
To participate in the delivery of effective clinical governance and to ensure that processes are in place which address clinical effectiveness and outcomes, clinical risk, clinical incidents, patient experience and complaints.
Work with the relevant Quality, Safety & Risk (QSR) team members to ensure that the design and delivery of enhanced primary care services adhere to H&W QSR policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines (PPPGs) and external standards / statutory requirements (e.g. HIQA).
To identify education requirements and opportunities and provide education to staff.
Review and interpret results and ensure critical results are escalated appropriately.
Communicate to patients, provide relevant lifestyle advice and ensure patient understanding of their results.
Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives. Work as part of a team to ensure patients receive excellent clinical and customer-focused experience.
Participate in clinical meetings and stay up-to-date with latest evidence based clinical practice and guidelines.
Provide advice to other clinical colleagues when or as required as set out in SOPs.
Maintain ongoing CME.

What you need to be successful

Education & Knowledge:

Essential

Registration with Irish Medical Council
3 years post qualification.
Medical Indemnity Insurance

Desirable

Post Graduate qualification MICGP/ MRCGP/ MRCPI or equivalent (ABIM)
Eligible for registration with Medical Council as GP or specialist in internal medicine.

Experience

Experience and skills in internal medicine and post-operative procedures
Experience of managing patients

Note: This role profile does not set out to capture every task to be carried out by the role holder but instead provide an overview of the main responsibilities of the job. It can be amended from time to time with reasonable notice to the role holder.

Skills and ability

Technical:

Experience of developing, applying and reviewing an evidence-based approach to decision-making
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Demonstrate evidence of effective planning and organising skills and has the ability to manage multiple complex tasks.
Ability to analyse and interpret data to measure success of health and wellness initiatives.
Demonstrate a commitment to fostering partnerships, multi-professional and multi- disciplinary relationships
Demonstration of research and clinical excellence through peer reviewed research and publications desirable

Interpersonal:

Operate with professional and personal integrity coupled with an overarching humility and proven ability to build strong working relationships.
Demonstrate an interest in, and be an advocate for all aspects of patient care
Demonstrated alignment to Vhi values

Vhi is an equal opportunity employer

Accessibility

If you are a candidate with a disability and encounter difficulty accessing any part of this website or wish to discuss any matter relating to the accessibility of our building or services, please contact recruitment@vhi.ie

Reasonable Accommodations

Our commitment is to make any reasonable accommodation for you in the recruitment process to give you the best opportunity to perform to your optimum in the application, test, and interview process.

Voluntary Health Insurance

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