Are you interested in leadership development opportunities?
Healthcare professionals – including nurses – are being urged to apply for exciting development opportunities.
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is inviting people who are interested in improving patient care and transforming community services to apply to be its next Darzi fellow as it looks to meet the future needs of its changing population.
The trust is launching an ambitious programme of work, in partnership with other system providers, focussing on the role of its community hospitals in improving patient outcomes for people in Kent.
To support the work, it will be hosting two Darzi Fellowship opportunities for the next academic year.
The Darzi Fellowship Clinical Leadership Programme is a unique opportunity designed to train and develop senior clinical leaders.
It is a 12-month challenge which leads to a post-graduate Leadership in Health certificate. Host organisations design challenges for Darzi Fellows to focus on as part of their course.
The trust is hosting two unique posts as part of defined programmes of work, to support and inform our future strategy.
The two areas are:
Community hospital referral pathways: The purpose of this post is to carry out a comprehensive and objective review of its existing referral pathways and transfers of care into community services. The Darzi Fellow will work across acute and community providers to explore and identify variation in established step-up and step-down pathways into community hospitals and the complexities that lead to variation. The Fellow would bring the patient voice to the design of the pathways and define what an improved pathway would look like. Apply for this role.
Edenbridge Memorial Health Centre: The purpose of this post is to provide an objective review of new and innovative ambulatory pathways of care in Edenbridge, working with primary care and community health providers and in partnership with local people. This post will support embedding the new clinical model, while identifying learning that can be applied across all our services to improve the patient experience. Apply for this role.
Applications are welcome from all healthcare professionals including medical/GP trainees, nurses and allied health professionals.
To find out more about the programme click here
Alternatively, to find out more contact Dr Phil Brighton Clinical Lead for Community Hospitals at philip.brighton@nhs.net, Dr Jo Seeley Geriatrics Specialist Doctor / Darzi mentor at j.seeley@nhs.net or Louise Ward Assistant Director for Community Hospitals at louise.ward5@nhs.net