Resident Doctor ST; MN- Virtual Hospital | West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Overview

Clinical Fellow (ST3+ level) post in Digital Medicine, remote monitoring and Virtual Hospital Medicine. Full‑time, fixed‑term 12‑month role, remote work possible.

• Deliver and maintain virtual hospital pathways for acute care wards.
• Communicate complex, sensitive, or contentious information (written and verbal) with senior colleagues, executives, and external stakeholders.
• Participate in case finding, attending emergency department daily huddles, daily board rounds, review patients remotely, and bring patients up to the hospital for in‑person reviews.
• Enhance the link between patients on outlier wards with the virtual hospital team and specialist services, reviewing in‑patients for potential onboarding.
• Link with industry partners to review current technology and remote patient monitoring solutions, and anticipate future developments.
• Engage in significant research opportunities for IT/data‑literate trainees, including monitoring streams for key physiological parameters from >1000 discharged patients.
• Encourage pursuit of affiliated postgraduate qualifications and engagement with the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.
• Support consultants in providing weekend cover for the virtual hospital (x1 weekend/month).

Disability support:  Service leaver, veteran, military reserve, cadet force adult volunteer, or partner/spouse of those serving: tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” on the application form.

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