Specialty Doctor in Community Care of the Elderly

Applications are invited for the post of Specialty Doctor for the Community Care of the Elderly team in Chepstow.

In this role you will be working as part of a larger multidisciplinary team to deliver specialist care to our older and frail patients with a focus on enabling care closer to home. You will be joining the team at an exciting time where you will be given ample opportunities to help shape the future of community COTE services. You will be working with Frailty colleagues to streamline and support early discharge from hospital into the community.

Your principal place of work will be Chepstow Community Hospital but you may be required to work across other sites within the Health Board according to service need.

The organisation is currently developing an Older Persons Pathway to improve patient outcomes and experience from home to hospital. The implementation of this strategic piece of work is likely to impact doctors working within the COTE Directorate in the future and there is an expectation that job plans will reflect the new pathway. The job plan within this job description has elements of this change. However, candidates should be aware that further changes are likely to take place in order to successfully implement the pathway fully across the Health Board.

The main responsibilities of the post are the effective and appropriate medical care of patients in the community including acute assessments and participation in community-based rehabilitation.