General Practitioner – Dorset Health Care NHS Foundation Trust
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A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen, we have been able to create a new role to provide high quality clinical management for people with frailty and other complex needs within their usual place of residence.
This person will work predominantly as part of a frailty team, consisting of two GP’s, a Band 7 Advanced Practitioner and a Band 3 Health Care Assistant, to provide pro-active and enhanced clinical management for patients within a care home/assisted living setting and identified frail patients in the community. To also provide support to the Mid Dorset Hub and wider MDT working to reduce admissions to hospital and urgent referrals to primary care.
To ensure that older people achieve the best quality of life, whatever their individual stage of frailty or place of residence through pro-active holistic management and intervention.
To play a part in the development of frailty services in Mid Dorset, in collaboration with the Locality teams, through service improvement initiatives and education.
Ideally we are looking for a two GPs with a passion and specialist interest in ‘care of the older person’, to work within our Dorchester Integrated Hub Team, four days a week each between Monday and Friday 9-5pm with some flexibility.
We would love to welcome you to Dorset HealthCare… with miles of sandy beaches, along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, some of the best weather in the UK, Dorset makes for a happy place to live and work.
The Mid Dorset Locality is a proactive integrated ‘forward thinking’ team, who work together to achieve true integration, always having the patient at its Centre.
To apply please go to our website http://jobs.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/job_list/s2/Medical_dental?_ts=1
