Salaried GP -Flexible working opportunity: special interest in frailtyNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced GP or newly qualified GP with a special interest in helping community patients living with frailty?

If so, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in our Integrated Neighbourhood Team working with colleagues from community services, GP Practice Clinical Leads, Frailty Matron, Occupational Therapist, Frailty Nurses, Care Co-ordinators, and Pharmacy Technician creating a Multidisciplinary Team Service to manage Frailty in our community, supportings patients in their own homes or in residential care settings.

We are accepting applications from GPs with an interest in frailty and complex patient management, to support patients to remain at home avoiding hospital admission or facilitating earlier discharge from hospital, where clinically appropriate. The model has a strong focus on integration, with partnership working alongside Cornwall Council, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, UHP (Plymouth) and CPFT alongside other local charitable and voluntary sector providers.

This role will be working within a multi disciplinary team with options around start and finish times which could include a school hours contract. Ideally covering 5 to 6 sessions per week. We are open to discuss variation of these hours.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide evidence based, comprehensive, person centred and individualised medical care for older people, including completion of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment where clinically indicated, and working as part of a multidisciplinary team, as part of holistic community patient clinical pathway management.

The role whilst demanding and challenging will require the post holder to possess the specialist frailty knowledge required to support the medical management of complex and challenging presentations of older frail people and will prove extremely varied and rewarding to the post holder. The post holder will also be able to contribute to service development, local clinical protocols and pathway development and implementation for older people living with frailty, engage in research opportunities, audit and quality improvement initiatives, and clinical staff competency development.

Job description

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description being aligned to Royal College guide to GP clinical extended roles

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register

A medical degree qualification

Up to date knowledge of all the latest guidelines and evidence in older peoples medicine

Understanding of clinical governance

Desirable

A teaching qualification e.g. post graduate diploma in post graduate education

A post graduate qualification in older peoples care, e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine

Experience of Emis, RIO and Hospital systems clinical systems

Experience

Essential

High level of clinical skills.

Successfully Completed General Practice Specialist Training

Appropriate range of previous experience in relevant posts.

Clinical and Information Governance

The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff

Desirable

Experience of working a variety of clinical software systems

Experience of working with or referring to Virtual Ward service or within urgent community response care

Skills and Competencies

Essential

Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, both computerised and manual

Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team,

Time management - being able to prioritise work and work under pressure

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

About us

About us

We are a well formed Integrated Neighbourhood Team covering the 3 Harbours and Bosvena geographical footprint in mid-Cornwall, we are looking to enhance our team to support frail patients to achieve better outcomes.

Our supporting GP practices are: Bosvena Health (Bodmin), Lostwithiel Medical Practice, Middleway Surgery and Fowey River Practice and the population covered is 43,500 patients.

Our frailty team including care-coordination, pharmacy technician, nurse consultant, occupation therapist and frailty nurses, working closely with our Community Provider and VCSE colleagues, are working closely to support this work.

This post will build on a team working in an MDT approach which will include liaising with our local Geriatrician through bi-monthly MDT reviews and other related consultants to maximise care and efficiency for our patients.