Salaried GP -Flexible working opportunity: special interest in frailty in Fowey

Overview

Are you a GP with a special interest in helping community patients living with frailty, looking for a school hour friendly contract? If so, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join us in our INT Team working with colleagues from community services including a 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) service, to create a multidisciplinary team service to manage Frailty in our community and support patients. 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, RCHT, UHP and CPFT and other local charitable and voluntary sector providers. This role will be working within a multidisciplinary team with options around start and finish times, including school hour contract. Ideally covering 3 to 4 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.

About us

As a newly 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 newly formed frailty team including care-coordination, pharmacy technician, nurse consultant, occupation therapist and frailty nurse, 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 in house Geriatrician and other related consultants to maximise care and efficiency for our patients.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

• Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register
• Up to date knowledge of all the latest guidelines and evidence in older peoples medicine
• Understanding of clinical governance
• A post graduate qualification in older peoples care, e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Certificate of Sponsorship & Immigration Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled-worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.