General Practitioner with Special Interest in Frailty

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking to recruit both full and part time General Practitioners with Special Interest in Frailty to join our Whole Systems Integrate Care team. This team is responsible for working with a range of partner organisations such as acute trusts, mental health professionals, local authorities and community services to ensure the appropriate level of care for service users and patients across the borough.

Dr David Lubel, Consultant Geriatrician, leads our team. The team, supported by GPs with special interest in Frailty and Enhanced Nurse Practitioners, and other health and social care professionals main aim is to care for our housebound patients with complex health and social issues, providing continuity of care and reduce the number of unnecessary non elective hospital admissions and LAS callouts in Harrow.

If you want to lead the clinical team in making a positive change to patients and carers quality of life, you could be the right person for this role.

Key Responsibilities are:

Provide planned care and support as required, including medically prescribed clinical treatments, personal care, end of life care and wider health and social care as needed;

Work with a wide range of professionals, including GPs, social workers, community nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists and acute frailty teams to encourage identification of patients and referral to the service.

Accept referrals from all health and care staff who approach the service, including GPs, social workers and community nurses;

Work with health and care professionals to identify individuals who may benefit from support;

Work with Internal and external stakeholders to deliver a seamless transition between the hospital and the community;

Use a frailty trigger tool to identify the needs of patients referred to the service and the level of support needed;

Ensure patients have an anticipatory care plan in place;

Our ideal candidate will:

Full Registration with the GMC

Post registration primary care experience

Relevant clinical experience with older adult patients

• Be able to effectively communicate with patients in a way which respects their privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs
• Be a UK Registered Nurse with significant senior post registration experience
• Have excellent communication skills and clear concise writing record keeping skills
• A full UK drivers license and access to own vehicle

In exchange we are offering:

• Starting salary of up to £11,000 per session
• Option to work hours flexibly between Monday to Friday daytime only
• Option to join the NHS Pension
• Healthcare scheme operated through Benenden
• Training and development opportunities

About Us:

Harrow Health GP Federation was established in 2007 by a group of Harrow GPs, whose sole aim was to ensure patients receive a high quality clinical care service within the community.

Over the years, Harrow Health has expanded. We now provide a large number of clinical services, which include:

• Belmont GP Access Centre (a service that provides patients an appointment to see a GP).
• Community Services which is a GP referral based service to a consultant or specialist doctor in the community at a reduced waiting time.
• Care at Home Team, which is part of the Whole Systems integrated care service specialised in providing home based care to our most vulnerable patients in Harrow.

Harrow Health provides quality patient care. We enhance patient experience by providing excellent clinical services in a safe environment. Harrow Health works in partnership with a wide range of system partners to help develop a sustainable future for the local health community.

Person Specification

Essential

• Our ideal candidate will:
• Full Registration with the GMC
• Post registration primary care experience
• Relevant clinical experience with older adult patients
• Be able to effectively communicate with patients in a way which respects their privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs
• Be a UK Registered Nurse with significant senior post registration experience
• Have excellent communication skills and clear concise writing record keeping skills
• A full UK drivers license and access to own vehicle

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Harrow Health GP Federation

Address

Westbury House

23-25 Bridge Street

Pinner

Middlesex

HA5 3HR

Employer's website

https://harrowhealth.online/about-harrow-health/ (Opens in a new tab)