Job summary
The COTE services are led by Dr Helen Alexander as the COTE Clinical Lead with Dr Sangeeta Kulkarni as the Frailty lead within COTE. COTE has 15 Consultants, many of whom have roles across a number of care of the Elderly and frailty services within the Trust.
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated team providing support within the Frailty service to support same day Emergency attendances to avoid unnecessary admissions. The role will work within the Frailty Unit and Emergency department, caring for frail patients. We are an ambitious department and in addition to our core, established sub-specialty departments are actively developing new services focused particularly on frailty and development of the frailty SDEC and virtual ward.
Main duties of the job
We anticipate that the applicant for this post will have MRCP and be an experienced clinician with geriatric medicine experience who is able to work autonomously. This includes anyone with a GP with a special interest (GPSI) in geriatric medicine. The objective of this post is to offer more focussed experience in frailty work and interface medicine on a Frailty Assessment Unit and Frailty Virtual Ward, with an opportunity to develop skills in geriatric medicine particular interest to the candidate. This would be suitable for a candidate looking for further training and development in this area.
Educational supervision will be provided by a geriatrician.
We will encourage the completion of a quality improvement project and poster presentation or publication.
There is no on call commitment, but the successful candidate would join a 1in 7 weekend rota reviewing inpatients and working on the frailty unit.
About us
Our Care of The Elderly Team consists of 13 geriatricians that work across Gloucester Royal Hospital, Cheltenham General Hospital, the seven Community Hospitals in Gloucestershire. We also have geriatricians who are working with community frailty services, movement disorders clinics, falls and syncope clinics. The Frailty Assessment Service is a multidisciplinary service assessing patients in ED and on the Frailty Assessment Unit, and also receives patients directly from the community. The Frailty Virtual Ward is a technology enabled service that supports patients to receive hospital level care at home and is part of a wider Virtual Hospital.
We are a forward thinking department and one of the first to develop a geriatrician lead orthogeriatrics ward, we also have a peri-operative medicine service and keen to move forward with progressing our frailty service
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated Frailty team of doctors and nurses providing admission avoidance care. We are an ambitious department with a service expansion and role development on the horizon
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated Frailty team of doctors and nurses providing admission avoidance care. We are an ambitious department with a service expansion and role development on the horizon
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Full GMC registration
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good clinical care
- Maintaining good medical practice
- Good relationships and communication with patients
- Good working relationships with colleagues
- Good teaching and training
- Professional behavior and probity
- Delivery of good acute clinical care
Clinical/Experience
Essential
- Evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in frailty at time of application and likelihood of achieving ST2/CT2 competences in frailty by the start date of the post Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Applicant's knowledge is up to date and fit to practice safely
- Commitment to clinical governance / improving quality of patient care
- Capacity to be alert to dangers or problems. Demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Aware of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Applicant's knowledge and skills to practice safely in emergency presentations in frailty as a senior decision maker in Emergency department, SDEC and Frailty assessment unit
- Evidence of interest and experience in teaching
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team working: demonstrated experience working in a team, values the input of other professionals in the team.
- Leadership skills: experience in leadership
- Managing others & team involvement: capacity to work co-operatively with others and demonstrate leadership when appropriate. Capacity to work effectively in multi professional teams.
- Coping with pressure: capacity to operate under pressure. Demonstrates initiative and resilience to cope with setbacks & adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.
- Problem solving & decision making: capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems & make decisions.
- Organisation & planning: capacity to organise oneself and prioritise own work. Demonstrates punctuality, preparation and self-discipline. Understands importance of information technology.
- Flexible approach to work: able to adapt and work with employers to deliver improved patient care.
- Equality and diversity: promotes equality and values diversity
- Professional integrity and respect for others: capacity to take responsibility for own actions and demonstrate a non-judgmental approach towards others. Displays honesty, integrity, awareness of confidentiality and ethical issues.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Full GMC registration
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good clinical care
- Maintaining good medical practice
- Good relationships and communication with patients
- Good working relationships with colleagues
- Good teaching and training
- Professional behavior and probity
- Delivery of good acute clinical care
Clinical/Experience
Essential
- Evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in frailty at time of application and likelihood of achieving ST2/CT2 competences in frailty by the start date of the post Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Applicant's knowledge is up to date and fit to practice safely
- Commitment to clinical governance / improving quality of patient care
- Capacity to be alert to dangers or problems. Demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Aware of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Applicant's knowledge and skills to practice safely in emergency presentations in frailty as a senior decision maker in Emergency department, SDEC and Frailty assessment unit
- Evidence of interest and experience in teaching
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Team working: demonstrated experience working in a team, values the input of other professionals in the team.
- Leadership skills: experience in leadership
- Managing others & team involvement: capacity to work co-operatively with others and demonstrate leadership when appropriate. Capacity to work effectively in multi professional teams.
- Coping with pressure: capacity to operate under pressure. Demonstrates initiative and resilience to cope with setbacks & adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.
- Problem solving & decision making: capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems & make decisions.
- Organisation & planning: capacity to organise oneself and prioritise own work. Demonstrates punctuality, preparation and self-discipline. Understands importance of information technology.
- Flexible approach to work: able to adapt and work with employers to deliver improved patient care.
- Equality and diversity: promotes equality and values diversity
- Professional integrity and respect for others: capacity to take responsibility for own actions and demonstrate a non-judgmental approach towards others. Displays honesty, integrity, awareness of confidentiality and ethical issues.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for 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).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for 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).
