Job summary
- Main area
- Care of the elderly
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental GPwER
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 2 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 318-26-GPwERFRAILTY
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucester Royal Hospital
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £61,542 - £121,016 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
GPwER in Frailty
NHS Medical & Dental GPwER
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
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Job overview
The COTE services are led by Dr Helen Alexander as the COTE Clinical Lead with Dr Sangeeta Kulkarni as the Frailty lead within COTE. COTE has 15 Consultants, many of whom have roles across a number of care of the Elderly and frailty services within the Trust.
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated team providing support within the Frailty service to support same day Emergency attendances to avoid unnecessary admissions. The role will work within the Frailty Unit and Emergency department, caring for frail patients. We are an ambitious department and in addition to our core, established sub-specialty departments are actively developing new services focused particularly on frailty and development of the frailty SDEC and virtual ward.
Main duties of the job
We anticipate that the applicant for this post will have MRCP and be an experienced clinician with geriatric medicine experience who is able to work autonomously. This includes anyone with a GP with a special interest (GPSI) in geriatric medicine. The objective of this post is to offer more focussed experience in frailty work and interface medicine on a Frailty Assessment Unit and Frailty Virtual Ward, with an opportunity to develop skills in geriatric medicine particular interest to the candidate. This would be suitable for a candidate looking for further training and development in this area.
Educational supervision will be provided by a geriatrician.
We will encourage the completion of a quality improvement project and poster presentation or publication.
There is no on call commitment, but the successful candidate would join a 1in 7 weekend rota reviewing inpatients and working on the frailty unit.
Working for our organisation
Our Care of The Elderly Team consists of 13 geriatricians that work across Gloucester Royal Hospital, Cheltenham General Hospital, the seven Community Hospitals in Gloucestershire. We also have geriatricians who are working with community frailty services, movement disorders clinics, falls and syncope clinics. The Frailty Assessment Service is a multidisciplinary service assessing patients in ED and on the Frailty Assessment Unit, and also receives patients directly from the community. The Frailty Virtual Ward is a technology enabled service that supports patients to receive hospital level care at home and is part of a wider Virtual Hospital.
We are a forward thinking department and one of the first to develop a geriatrician lead orthogeriatrics ward, we also have a peri-operative medicine service and keen to move forward with progressing our frailty service
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated Frailty team of doctors and nurses providing admission avoidance care. We are an ambitious department with a service expansion and role development on the horizon
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Full GMC registration
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good clinical care
- Maintaining good medical practice
- Good relationships and communication with patients
- Good working relationships with colleagues
- Good teaching and training
- Professional behavior and probity
- Delivery of good acute clinical care
Clinical/Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in frailty at time of application and likelihood of achieving ST2/CT2 competences in frailty by the start date of the post Eligibility to work in the UK.
- Applicant’s knowledge is up to date and fit to practice safely
- Commitment to clinical governance / improving quality of patient care
- Capacity to be alert to dangers or problems. Demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Aware of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Applicant’s knowledge and skills to practice safely in emergency presentations in frailty as a senior decision maker in Emergency department, SDEC and Frailty assessment unit
- Evidence of interest and experience in teaching
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Team working: demonstrated experience working in a team, values the input of other professionals in the team.
- Leadership skills: experience in leadership
- Managing others & team involvement: capacity to work co-operatively with others and demonstrate leadership when appropriate. Capacity to work effectively in multi professional teams.
- Coping with pressure: capacity to operate under pressure. Demonstrates initiative and resilience to cope with setbacks & adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.
- Problem solving & decision making: capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems & make decisions.
- Organisation & planning: capacity to organise oneself and prioritise own work. Demonstrates punctuality, preparation and self-discipline. Understands importance of information technology.
- Flexible approach to work: able to adapt and work with employers to deliver improved patient care.
- Equality and diversity: promotes equality and values diversity
- Professional integrity and respect for others: capacity to take responsibility for own actions and demonstrate a non-judgmental approach towards others. Displays honesty, integrity, awareness of confidentiality and ethical issues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sangeeta Kulkarni
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Frailty in Care of the elderly
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03004226455
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