GP Lead (Extended role in frailty)

Integrated Care System; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in South Africa is seeking a General Practitioner with an extended role to support community patients living with frailty. In this challenging yet rewarding position, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team focused on preventing hospital admissions and improving patient care. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in older people's medicine and possess the necessary qualifications and experience in geriatric assessments.

Benefits

Support from a multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Experience in general practice or hospital geriatrician role.
• A developed interest in frailty and long-term condition management.
• Ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centered medical care for older people.
• Complete Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments.
• Contribute to service development and clinical protocol.

Skills

High level of clinical skills

Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team

Time management

Education

Full and current unrestricted GMC registration

Post graduate qualification in older peoples care

Teaching qualification

Tools

Emis

RIO

Hospital systems

Job description

Do you want to be a GP with Extended Role - supportingcommunity patients living with Frailty?

If so, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join usin our INT Team working with colleagues from Virtual Ward, community servicesincluding a 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) service, to create aMultidisciplinary Team Service to manage Frailty in our community and supportpatients.

We are accepting applications from GPs with an interest infrailty and complex patient management, to support patients to remain at homeavoiding hospital admission or facilitating earlier discharge from hospital,where clinically appropriate. The model has a strong focus on integration, withpartnership working alongside Cornwall Council, RCHT, UHP and CPFT and otherlocal charitable and voluntary sector providers.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide evidence based, comprehensive,person centred and individualised medical care for older people, includingcompletion of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment where clinically indicated,and working as part of a multidisciplinary team, as part of holistic communitypatient clinical pathway management. The role whilst demanding and challengingwill require the post holder to possess the specialist frailty knowledgerequired to support the medical management of complex and challengingpresentations of older frail people and will prove extremely varied andrewarding to the post holder. The post holder will also be able to contributeto service development, local clinical protocols and pathway development andimplementation for older people living with frailty, engage in researchopportunities, audit and quality improvement initiatives, and clinical staffcompetency development.

About us

About us

We are a newly formed Wave 1 site embarking on NeighbourhoodTeam working covering the 3 Harbours and Bosvena geographical footprint inmid-Cornwall. Our supporting GP practices are:

Bosvena Health, Lostwithiel Medical Practice, MiddlewaySurgery and Fowey River Practice and the population covered is 43,500 patients.

We have a newly formed INT Steering Group and some skilledworkforce and teams within our Community Provider, GP Practice andneighbourhood to support this work.

We will look to build a team working in an MDT approachwhich will include liaising with Geriatricians and other related consultants tomaximise care and efficiency for our patients.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Job Description being aligned to Royal College guide to GPclinical extended roles

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on theGP Register

Up to date knowledge of all the latest guidelines andevidence in older peoples medicine

Understanding of clinical governance

A post graduate qualification in older peoples care, e.g.Diploma Geriatric Medicine

Experience of Emis, RIO and Hospital systems clinicalsystems

Experience

High level of clinical skills.

Successfully Completed General Practice Specialist Training

Appropriate range of previous experience in relevant posts.

Clinical and Information Governance

The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff

Experience of working a variety of clinical software systems

Experience of working with or referring to Virtual Wardservice or within urgent community response care

Skills and Competencies

Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, bothcomputerised and manual

Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team,

Time management - being able to prioritise work and workunder pressure

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act(Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission forDisclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known asCRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilledworker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be consideredalongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visasand Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying forentry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificatefrom each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 monthsor more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are alsosubject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checksfor overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in general practice or hospital geriatrician role with experience of care planning and admission avoidance work.
• Experience of working in primary care.
• A developed interest in frailty and long term condition management.

Qualifications

• Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register
• A teaching qualification e.g. post graduate diploma in post graduate education
• A post graduate qualification in older peoples care, e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.