ST1 / 2 in Frailty Elderly Care | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting role for a junior doctor to work alongside a multidisciplinary frailty team. The frailty team will be responsible for providing
comprehensive geriatric assessment, advice and expedite discharges for older people with frailty.

You will work alongside, and be supported by, a consultant geriatrician, frailty nurse consultant and a team of multidisciplinary frailty practitioners.

You will work within the Emergency Department assessing older patients who have experienced a frailty crisis leading to hospital admission. You
will also work within the inpatient liaison team, providing support for older people with frailty not admitted to geriatric medicine wards.

This post would ideally suit someone on an ST1/2 year looking for general medical experience, or someone who has completed CMT training and is
looking to specialise in geriatric medicine or a related speciality. It would also suit someone returning to medicine after a career break or someone
wanting to gain further experience of working within the NHS.

The post will be Monday to Friday, 8.30 to 5.00pm., Disability Confident
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ST1/2 in Frailty Elderly Care | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.