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.
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.
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Salaried GP-Flexible working opportunity: Special interest in Frailty in Truro employer: KERNOW HEALTH
Join a thriving and supportive practice in Liskeard, where we prioritise high-quality patient care and staff well-being. With generous leave, a strong focus on work-life balance, and numerous professional development opportunities, we foster a fun and collaborative work culture. Our commitment to innovation and sustainability, alongside our award-winning research team, makes us an excellent employer for passionate GPs seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
