This enhanced primary care post (0.4 FTE) sits within a dynamic and diverse multi-professional team driving innovation in an enhanced primary care models based on the patient centered medical home.

You will join a multidisciplinary team of health professionals including a clinical lead with background in primary care, nurses and a range of AHSCPs in the delivery of effective and high quality primary care, encompassing medical screening to all patients. There will be opportunity for the successful post-holder to develop and maintain sub-specialty interests.

Key Responsibilities Will Include But Are Not Limited To

• Deliver and develop primary care services within the Vhi network and create an excellent model of care to provide the best services and care for your patients
• Apply your General Practice skills in a new dynamic and well organized system
• Engage with other primary care colleagues within the Vhi network and 360 Centre to provide enhanced ambulatory community care to address patient needs.
• Support an integrated care approach across Vhi H&W and related service including but not limited to urgent care and hospital at home services.
• Promote and develop disease prevention measures.
• 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.
• Complete medical reports for patients based on agreed protocols.
• 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.
• Undertake any other clinical duties as may arise from time to time within the Vhi 360 clinics
• Participate in and support any accreditation programme through compliance with SOPs and clinical best practice, as laid out in the relevant standards.
  
  
  

Applicants for this role must have:

• Hold specialist registration with the Irish Medial Council, in the division of General Practice
• Minimum 5 years relevant clinical experience (inclusive of GP Training).
• Experience working with multi-professional, multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience facilitating patient pathways from community to tertiary care
• 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
• 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
• Demonstrates a match to values of Vhi health and wellbeing including commitment to care for patients by leading with heart/ courage to create a new future and together we do our best work
• Demonstrate alignment to vhi values
  
  
  

Desirable

• Postgraduate training in area of interest such as Women’s Health, Paediatrics, Dermatology, DME.
• Advocate of value based care, experience of developing patient reported outcomes and delivering outcome based clinical practice. Quality Improvement interest
• Previous experience in Emergency Care and Ambulatory care
• Special interest in education / Innovation
  
  
  

Closing date – 08/10/2023

Vhi is an equal opportunities employer.