A Bit About Us

We’re Doccla, the virtual ward company. We provide patients and clinicians with the transformative power of remote patient monitoring. Our existing customers are Hospitals, Community Services, and NHS Commissioners that we partner with to deliver tech enabled virtual wards. With our technology, logistics, and support patients can be discharged from a hospital ward to a virtual one and recover in the comfort of their own homes. Patients love our care pathways and health services become more efficient; it’s a win-win.

We are a young company with big aims and a lot of momentum. In the summer of 2022 we raised $18M in an oversubscribed A round led by General Catalyst, a top tier global VC fund and have gone from strength to strength since: we’ve won a series of large multiyear NHS contracts, extended 100% of our existing client contracts.

This is your chance to join us at a key stage of our growth. Our ambition is to be a category leader for virtual healthcare. You will be joining a highly entrepreneurial team that combines technical, clinical, operational, and commercial colleagues.

We're solving real problems for patients and health systems. we’re looking for dedicated people with a passion for healthcare.

The Respiratory Consultant is a key role in the effective implementation of our virtual ward and remote patient monitoring. The Respiratory Consultant will support the remote patient monitoring team and undertake patient assessments and utilise the web-based Doccla platform to remotely monitor and assess the well-being and treatment programmes of patients with various conditions including acute and chronic respiratory conditions.

Responsibilities Include

Key Responsibilities

• Provide respiratory expertise to clinicians working within Doccla and within the NHS.
• Provide support in setting up and maintaining respiratory virtual hubs
• Provide leadership to Doccla MDT patients
• Lead and offer expertise to MDT meetings
• Work collaboratively with teams throughout Doccla to ensure high quality, safe and effective services for our patients and clients
• Work autonomously and utilise high level clinical decision-making skills to ensure accurate assessments of patients.
• Develop effective and collaborative working relationships with clients across the NHS, both in the primary and secondary care sectors.
• Provide support to patients in their home environment, ensuring they are safe, and their care needs are met.
• Utilise Doccla care pathways to deliver evidence-based support and advice to patients on the virtual ward.
• Ensure help is summoned in a patient emergency, by calling 999.
• Undertake clinical risk assessment to minimise and eliminate risks and take appropriate action.
• Refer patients to the relevant professional/clinician dependent on assessed needs.
• To maintain contemporaneous and accurate patient records.
• Support and participate in the development of integrated care pathways to enable remote patient monitoring.
• Work in line with Doccla values.

Educational responsibilities

• Provide respiratory education, support, and advice to Doccla clinicians and patients on the virtual ward, ensuring their health and well-being is maximised to their optimum potential.

Person specification requirements

• Take responsibility for your own professional learning and development in collaboration with your line manager, ensuring post holder remains up to date with latest guidance/ best practice within heart failure medicine
• Maintain compliance with statutory and mandatory training requirements.
• Be aware of local and national policies, and ensure practice is implemented within these guidelines.
• Ensure GMC registration is maintained, and revalidation requirements are met.

Regarding Audit You Will Be Required To

• Support and participate in clinical audit.
• Assist clinical management in setting team standards, priorities, and objectives.
• Maintain patient records in line with Doccla’s Records Retention Policy.
• The post holder must be inquisitive, systematic and self motivated. They must be able to work well in a flexible environment with a multidisciplinary team (including non-clinicians). They must be skilled at communicating and inspiring research and evaluation. Above all, the post holder must be passionate about service improvement through innovation and patient-centred care.

The post holder must

• Hold MBBS or equivalent and MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• Full registration with GMC and hold a license to practice
• Be on the specialist register for respiratory medicine
• Have the right to work in the U/K
• Level of clinical experience and competence in the management of all aspects of respiratory medicine
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinions on the full range of problems within the specialty
• Have evidence of specialist knowledge and continuing professional development

Skills/Abilities

The post holder must:

• Be able to read, write and speak English fluently;
• Have solid technology acumen;
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and well-developed interpersonal skills;
• Be excellent at team working with the ability to work using their own initiative;
• Be professional and patient-focussed;
• Provide advice, support and expertise to raise awareness of the needs of the patient with heart failure;
• Be accountable for their own actions in accordance with the GMC Code of Conduct;
• Be able to work autonomously with minimal direction;
• Have well-developed political awareness, influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills;
• Be able to motivate and inspire the clinical team to achieve quality patient outcomes;
• Be confident using IT systems MS office (including word and excel).

Ideally, post holders will also have some knowledge and experience of remote patient monitoring technologies.