Job summary
- Main area
- Virtual Ward
- Grade
- Senior Clinical Fellow (MT04)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7115274
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Edmonton
- Salary
- £61,825 +LW, Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Clinical Fellow - Virtual Ward
Senior Clinical Fellow (MT04)
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
This is an exciting role providing clinical input to the management of patients on the Virtual Ward (VW) and an opportunity to shape this innovative service as it continues to develop.
The North Middlesex VW has been operating since 2022 and currently has 32 Main Ward and 8 Remote Monitoring beds. VW is supported by a team of ACP Band 7 Nurses, therapists and a Doctor. There is anticipated expansion into a number of new pathways during 2024/25 and a plan to increase both capacity and occupancy.
Support will be provided by the Divisional Medical Director for North Mid in the Community.
Main duties of job
Clinical responsibilities for this post will include a daily 2 hour long MDT; referral management, post admission review, clinical advice and support to the team of Nurses and therapists. This role will be responsible for maintain high clinical standards in the management of all virtual ward in-patients and liaising with specialty teams to ensure timely specialist review.
Service development activities will include: discussions with specialty leads, development and review of proposed pathways and participation in quality improvement.
The role will also have a strategic component: fostering relationships within the North Middlesex acute hospital team, community teams, sector partners and primary care to encourage uptake and participation in development of the virtual ward agenda.
Main duties of the job
Clinical responsibilities for this post will include a daily 2 hour long MDT; referral management, post admission review, clinical advice and support to the team of Nurses and therapists. This role will be responsible for maintain high clinical standards in the management of all virtual ward in-patients and liaising with specialty teams to ensure timely specialist review.
Service development activities will include: discussions with specialty leads, development and review of proposed pathways and participation in quality improvement.
The role will also have a strategic component: fostering relationships within the North Middlesex acute hospital team, community teams, sector partners and primary care to encourage uptake and participation in development of the virtual ward agenda.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a new post based at North Middlesex University Hospital with some requirement for home visits to patients within the local area.The Virtual Ward is part of the Community Division with close co-working with the Medicine and Urgent Care Division.
DCC will consist of:
· Daily Virtual Ward MDT
· Post admission review
· Review of referrals
· Clinical advice and support
· With scope for involvement in other specialties in the Trust – to be discussed
Person specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent GMC Registration
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and appraisals in line with GMC.
Desirable criteria
- MRCP
- Knowledge of national virtual ward frameworks and models
Professional Experience
Essential criteria
- 4 years NHS experience or equivalent post GMC registration.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of previous audit and quality improvement work
Audit
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of previous audit and quality improvement work
- Able to identify improvement opportunities in a fast changing and evolving new service
Reseach
Essential criteria
- Understanding of research methodology and clinical paper interpretation
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael May
- Job title
- Divisional Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07856235771
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