Consultant Community Physician (Hospital at Home Frailty)

We are looking for a consultant colleague with a CCT in Geriatric Medicine, Acute Medicine or Emergency Medicine. You will have a passion for, and proven track record in, delivering acute frailty care. You will be comfortable with holding high levels of clinical risk and excited by the possibility of delivering medical care in new ways. This is a permanent, full time, 10 PA working 08:00 - 20:00 over a 7 days service Initially, the post has no out-of-hours commitments. This will change, however, and it will be expected that the post-holder will contribute to a future on-call rota providing medical cover to the services for evenings and weekends.

Morning handover on Teams with 4 neighbourhoods represented Lead on planning workload for day Direct clinical work: home visits, phone calls, providing advice to trainee ACPs via phone or videocall Some sessions as desk-based medic in Care Co-ordination, our community hub, to help triage and facilitate referrals from primary and secondary care Service development, developing relationships in community and with acute secondary care providers No day will look the same; flexibility is key as the service develops