- Clinical Lead Hep C London, England
Job description
Main duties of the job
This pilot will work closely with two GP practice pilot sites to establish evidence based effective approaches to improving Hep C care across four key patient groups:
- Patients that may be at risk of Hepatitis C
- Patients who have a confirmed diagnosis but no treatment record and need to be followed-up.
- Cases of those that may have received infected blood and/or infected blood products
- Patients with other blood borne viruses (BBVs)
It would suit any GP who is passionate about making a definitive improvement to patient outcomes whilst also diversifying their clinical role.
Proposed approach is as follows:
- Set out a 9-month pilot programme. First 2 months will be a scoping exercise to identify and work with the best pilot sites to capture the most activity. Run the pilot for 6 months and the final month, wrap up pilot and facilitate an after-action review and evaluation.
- Engage the pilot site staff and identify a core team in each who will work on the development of an effective service. The team will represent the delivery chain of staff involved in the patient pathways.
- Collaborate with the National Hep C team for Eliminating Hep C route map to ensure joined up approach and guaranteed value add for the pilot sites and patient outcomes and maximum patient impact.
- Work with the teams to agree aims and families of measures for each element of the project and collect data to monitor progress.
- Develop a tool kit to be shared with other sites for adoption.
Working for our organisation
As Clinical Lead for Hep C you will work as part of a dynamic team to support Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC) to transform care for patients.
This will include to lead the planning and design of the strategy to meet the vision and strategic direction and to ensure outputs are delivered effectively and to time, and that all pan-London outputs align with, and support, local transformation programmes across Integrated Commissioning Boards (ICBs), Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and Strategic Planning Groups (SPGs). Work across the wider organisation to agree prioritisation of blocks of work and related resource allocation to ensure high priority work/dependencies are completed in a timely manner. We will work with you to ensure that you are supported in developing your career whilst having the opportunity to work on some of the most strategic and transformative programmes in London.
TPHC brings together the NHS in London and our partners to deliver better health and care for all Londoners. Our partners include the Mayor of London, Greater London Authority, Public Health England, London Councils and Health Education England. We believe that collectively we can make London the healthiest global city in the world by uniting all of London to deliver the ambitions set out in The London Vision and the NHS Long Term Plan.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached relevant Job Description and Person Specification for more information and details for main responsibility.
Person specification
Qualifications/Knowledge/Training
Essential criteria
- Hep C Clinician working with vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness or inclusion health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clinical skills around Hep C and working with vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness or inclusion health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Worked as a clinician managing Hep C for people experiencing homeslessness and or working with vulnerable or inclusion health
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Please note:
- Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
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