GP with Special Interest in Frailty

Are you interested in becoming a key part of an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, developing your clinical skills across traditional health, social care and voluntary sector boundaries? We are seeking a GP with a special interest in frailty who is driven, committed and enthusiastic, who will bring clinical leadership to our multidisciplinary team and provide high quality care to our patients. This post will be 2 sessions on a weekly basis with appropriate breaks, The virtual frailty ward seeks to manage individuals living with frailty who have an acute medical condition that would usually necessitate an admission to the hospital but with the support provided by the virtual frailty ward team, the individual will be supported to remain in their own home receiving a high level of clinical care, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to manage the acute episode.

The urgent community response within REACT provides a two-hour response and subsequent support to people who are experiencing a health or social care crisis that puts the individual at risk of not being safely managed within their own home with an increased risk of a hospital admission. This service enables adults with complex needs to access support from a wide range of health, voluntary and social care practitioners, supporting the individual's independence if possible.

REACT brings health, social care and voluntary sector (British Red Cross, Suffolk Family Carers and Citizens Advice Bureau) services together to provide a single coordinated care response that is underpinned by care in the community with early intervention, crisis management, reablement and rehabilitation. Based in the lovely county of Suffolk, this is a key role working within our virtual frailty ward and the 2-hour urgent community response across Ipswich & East Suffolk., East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.

We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.

We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.

We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.

At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.