Specialty Doctor/GP Extensivist or Advanced Practitioner – Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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We are looking to welcome a Specialty Doctor/GP or Advanced Practitioner with a specialist or extensive experience in caring for people with increasing frailty to our team. We would love to hear from you to discuss how together we might be able to tailor your dream job. We are offering 16 hours over 2 days with flexibility, based at Westhaven Community Hospital, Weymouth.
Where appropriate, admission to the community hospital is used as an alternative to an acute admission. Our inpatients fit into 3 categories: step-down patients from local acute hospitals, requiring rehabilitation; step-up patients from the community, requiring investigation and management of medical problems; End of life care. Rehabilitation is focused on maximising individual potential, with the aim of helping patients return to their own home.
This role will support an innovative service delivery model in which the successful candidate will work alongside primary care, multi-disciplinary community teams and acute care colleagues and provide clinical leadership to ensure high quality responsive care in Community Hospitals and in people’s homes.
The West Dorset Locality (Dorchester, Weymouth and Bridport) is a proactive integrated ‘forward thinking’ team, who work together to achieve true integration, always having the patient at it's centre. The team provide assessments and treatments for inpatients on our wards. They support our community teams by undertaking domiciliary assessments and participating in a virtual ward management of local patients, which is integral to the local service that supports frail and elderly patients to remain in their own home.
To apply please go to our website Join Dorset HealthCare (joindhc.co.uk)
