Trust Grade Clinical Fellow Doctor in Acute Frailty

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated junior doctor to work as Frailty Fellow FY3 in a multidisciplinary acute frailty team within the Whittington Health Integrated Care Trust.

The post is ideal for candidates who would like to take a step off the training ladder (as a FY3) or for trainees returning to training or clinical practice. The appointee will gain excellent experience of interface geriatrics between primary and secondary care and will suit candidates who are considering a career in primary care, geriatric medicine or acute medicine. The Whittington has an excellent reputation for career advice and education and a good track record in preparing candidates to successfully apply for specialist training., The successful candidate will work to support the Acute Frailty Service which works to avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital for older people and support patients to be more independent in the community for as long as possible.

The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary Acute Frailty Team within the Emergency Department (ED) and Ambulatory emergency Care (AEC)/ Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) as well as the Acute admission wards under the direct clinical supervision of the Frailty consultant geriatrician.

The successful post holder will be able to take a lead in the comprehensive geriatric assessment of patients referred to the Frailty Team. They will autonomously work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing patient-centred clinical care, encompassing the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment of patients. The post is intended to provide improved outcomes for patients by improving timeliness and consistency of care for older patients with frailty seeking emergency care and referred to the Acute Frailty Pathway, promoting same day discharge and community management of older patients with frailty, whenever appropriate.

We are looking for a flexible and dynamic individual with a comprehensive clinical background, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work independently. Experience in delivering training is desirable and background experience of working clinically with older patients living with frailty and having completed FY2 programme with at least 4 months of previous experience in either Emergency Medicine, General Practice or Acute Medicine is essential.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

The post will be offered for a 12-month contract, but flexibility will be applied for less than full-time working or for a reduced contract period.