In-Reach GP for Frailty Team - #136960

Job Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to test new ways of delivering care across the system and to become part of the Frailty Team’s passionate approach to caring for older people with frailty presenting with frailty syndromes.

Our integrated frailty team works within ED and the Acute Assessment Unit to deliver a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for older adults who present acutely with a frailty syndrome.

We work closely with community services to ensure that patients are managed in the most appropriate setting for their needs. Work is ongoing with our colleagues in primary care in East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire and BHFT community services to provide clear pathways for those living with frailty with a view to receiving direct referrals to the frailty team from the community, minimising the time these often vulnerable patients have to spend in ED waiting for an appropriate assessment.

Main duties of the job

The post is based within ED and AAU in Wexham Park Hospital, working within a team comprising an SHO, senior nurses, occupational therapists and a prescribing pharmacist. We work together to complete all aspects of the CGA with the In-reach GP or Consultant Geriatrician serving as the senior decision maker and medical review.

The post holder(s) would ideally have an interest in frailty and integrated working across the wider health system. We would encourage applications from those interested in quality improvement who would like to see a truly integrated approach for our local elderly population.

Applications would be welcome from both our East Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire colleagues.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To work across the acute frailty pathway in our Emergency Assessment Centre
• To help to bridge the interface between acute and community services and to improve communication between primary and secondary care.
• To assist with the provision of multidisciplinary comprehensive geriatric assessment for people with frailty
• To help facilitate the timely movement of medically stable patients into the community who still require a degree of medical management.
• To act as a senior clinical decision maker in order to manage clinical risk surrounding discharge and enable safe and early discharge from ED and the Acute Assessment Unit in the EAC.
• To review reattendances in ED, analyse the reasons and investigate preventative measures.
• To work alongside an established multidisciplinary team including consultant geriatrician, therapists, nurses and the social care team.
• To act as an accountable general practitioner, managing clinical care and facilitating general management through partnership with the management team.
• To adhere to GMC policy and guidelines for Best Medical Practice.
  
  

Person specification

Personal Specification

Essential criteria

• Has a current Licence to practice
• MBChB
• Inclusion in the GMC Register
• On the Regional Medical Performance List
  
  

Desirable criteria

• MRCGP
  
  

Personal Specification

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development
  
  

Personal Specification

Essential criteria

• Up to date training on Safeguarding (Children and Adults), and CPR (12 months)
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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