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Job overview

As a doctor working in ambulatory care in the community your role can be varied. When working clinically in one of the units, the role is very hands on, assessing newly referred patients, and those who have returned for follow-up, as well as daily review of the small number of in-patients. While interface medics have a nominal base unit, some flexibility to attend meetings and to provide cover in other units from time to time is required.

OHFT currently has a GP trainee working in each of the Witney and Abingdon units (Monday to Friday) and interface doctors have a role in supervising their day-to-day clinical work, and undertaking some of their workplace based assessments. Similarly, the interface medic may be asked to provide senior medical advice and support to clinical practitioners who are working alongside them on the unit or other colleagues such as Hospital at Home (H@H) and Urgent Community Response (UCR) practitioners delivering care in patient’s own homes.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality clinical care and assessments
• To deliver personalised, evidence based informed medical care plans to all patients attending EMU and in EMU beds that are appropriately documented and regularly evaluate
• To provide advice and timely medical reviews and interventions as part of the inter-disciplinary model of care
• To support and actively manage admission avoidance to acute hospitals to ensure that all patients attending EMU receive optimal care in relation to assessed need
• To work in close partnership and liaison with Primary Care, acute and specialist services, urgent and ambulatory care, Hospital at Home, Single Point of Access (SPA), Community Services (such as Integrated Locality Teams, Community Therapy Service), Social Services, Mental Health Services and Voluntary Services both clinically and in relation to service development
• To co-ordinate the clinical care and appropriate support in collaboration with clinical and management colleagues to ensure the quality of outcomes for patients and carers.
• To provide high quality personal medical services that achieve the National quality requirements for Witney EMU services and the other services in Abingdon and Henley when required.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health provides a comprehensive range of physical, mental health and social care services to the populations of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. In Oxfordshire, we are the main provider of community health services and deliver these in a range of community and in-patient settings including eight community hospitals and a Hospital at Home Team. The trust employs Specialist nurses (e.g. diabetes, heart failure, respiratory) Community Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapists, Podiatry, Minor Injury Units, Urgent Care, which includes the county Out of Hours GP service. 

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is a core partner of the Oxford Academic Health Sciences Centre. Research activity is a top priority for the Trust alongside high quality service provision and education and training. Jointly with the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford Health hosts a NIHR-funded. Clinical Research Facility and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC).