Salaried GP (school hours contract - special interest in frailty)

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 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 when clinically appropriate. The model has a strong focus on integration, with partnership working alongside Cornwall Council, RCHT, UHP, CPFT, and other local charitable and voluntary sector providers.

This role will be working Monday to Friday weekly, with school friendly hours of 9:30 to 2 pm daily. We are open to discuss variation of these hours.

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 within a holistic community patient clinical pathway. The role, whilst demanding and challenging, will require the post holder to possess specialist frailty knowledge to support the medical management of complex and challenging presentations of older frail people, and will be extremely varied and rewarding.

The post holder will also be able to contribute to service development, local clinical protocols and pathway implementation for older people living with frailty, engage in research opportunities, audit and quality improvement initiatives, and clinical staff competency development.

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 includes care‐coordination, pharmacy technician, nurse consultant, occupation therapist and frailty nurse, working closely with our Community Provider and VCSE colleagues. 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 Description being aligned to Royal College guide to GP clinical extended roles.

• Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register.
• Up‐to‐date knowledge of all the latest guidelines and evidence in older people's medicine.
• Understanding of clinical governance.
• A postgraduate qualification in older people's care, e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine.
• Experience of Emis, RIO and Hospital systems clinical systems.

• High level of clinical skills.
• Successfully completed General Practice Specialist Training.
• Appropriate range of previous experience in relevant posts.
• Clinical and Information Governance knowledge.
• The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff.
• Experience of working with or referring to Virtual Ward service or within urgent community response care.

• Ability to make 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 compliance.

• Experience of working in general practice or hospital frailty role with care planning and admission avoidance work.
• Experience of working in primary care.
• A developed interest in frailty and long‐term condition management.

• Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register.
• A teaching qualification e.g. postgraduate diploma in post‐graduate education.
• A postgraduate qualification in older people's care, e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.