Ambulatory Emergency Care Services have been available on the Wexham Park site for 10 years and are robust, successful and vital aspects of the urgent and emergency pathway on both sites. As primarily admission avoidance services, there function and processes have been part of many national publications and pilots and these services at FHFT are held amongst the top performing services of their kind in the NHS.

In November 2022, we launched our Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) Virtual Ward to offer an expansion to the options available within FHFT for Acute Medical same day emergency care (SDEC), providing admission avoidance and early discharge for those patients managed through these services that could be managed virtually, increasing both inpatient and SDEC capacity to support flow in the emergency pathway.

Since launching, we have managed over 4000 patients through our service and have proven the benefits it brings to the Trust and patients. With ongoing pressures facing our Urgent & Emergency pathways, we have successfully been given funding to expand our service and so we are looking for talented and enthusiastic individuals to join our growing team.

Please note advertised posts are for our Wexham Park site.

Main duties of the job

These posts will be based at the front doors of our Acute hospitals and key to help support and champion the use of virtual care and maximise the ability to give a further alternative to admission by streamlining referral processes and provide more capacity for earlier assessment and discharge.

The other primary function of these roles will be to actively recruit and monitor patients on the UEC Virtual Ward caseload alongside our growing team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners and in conjunction with our Acute Medical and SDEC teams.