Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatric
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 2 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 432-MI2567
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Constantine House
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
GP with Special Interest in Frailty
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you interested in becoming a key part of an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, developing your clinical skills across traditional health, social care and voluntary sector boundaries? We are seeking a GP with a special interest in frailty who is driven, committed and enthusiastic, who will bring clinical leadership to our multidisciplinary team and provide high quality care to our patients. This post will be 2 sessions on a weekly basis with appropriate breaks
REACT brings health, social care and voluntary sector (British Red Cross, Suffolk Family Carers and Citizens Advice Bureau) services together to provide a single coordinated care response that is underpinned by care in the community with early intervention, crisis management, reablement and rehabilitation. Based in the lovely county of Suffolk, this is a key role working within our virtual frailty ward and the 2-hour urgent community response across Ipswich & East Suffolk.
Main duties of the job
The virtual frailty ward seeks to manage individuals living with frailty who have an acute medical condition that would usually necessitate an admission to the hospital but with the support provided by the virtual frailty ward team, the individual will be supported to remain in their own home receiving a high level of clinical care, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to manage the acute episode.
The urgent community response within REACT provides a two-hour response and subsequent support to people who are experiencing a health or social care crisis that puts the individual at risk of not being safely managed within their own home with an increased risk of a hospital admission. This service enables adults with complex needs to access support from a wide range of health, voluntary and social care practitioners, supporting the individual’s independence if possible.
Please see attached application information pack for further details about the role including the JD & PS.
Working for our organisation
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for providing the medical review of patients within their own home environment, who are on the REACT and virtual frailty ward caseload. This will include the planning and management of complete episodes of care, initiation and management of therapeutic diagnostics and interventions, working in partnership with the multidisciplinary team, and delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use. The REACT caseload is discussed on the daily morning handover and the virtual ward has a twice weekly MDT. Senior medical cover is provided by Dr Lim, clinical lead for REACT, Dr Saghir and Dr Dan Coates. There is also advice available from the consultant covering the frailty assessment base Monday-Friday 9-5pm.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
- MBBS or equivalent
- Previous NHS experience in the community.
- Experience in delivering primary care services
- Evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to organise and prioritise competing demands
- Flexibility to respond to changing service needs
- Commitment to training and continuing medical education
- Driving licence
- Effective communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Tier 3 frailty training
- Diploma of geriatric medicine
- Previous experience of an urgent community response service or virtual frailty ward (hospital at home)
- IT skills
- Holds a UK driving license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sam Bilotta
- Job title
- Assistant General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07593 521962
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