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.

Our in reach GPs typically spend one full day a week with the team.

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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