# GP with Extended Role in Frailty (2 Sessions on Wednesdays) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Durham Health CIC. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/gp-with-extended-role-in-frailty-2-sessions-on-wednesdays/fe0e6449-99f9-4c19-9a8f-88cbccc64c54 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/gp-with-extended-role-in-frailty-2-sessions-on-wednesdays/fe0e6449-99f9-4c19-9a8f-88cbccc64c54.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South Durham Health CIC - **Location:** The Surgery, Ashmore Terrace, Wheatley Hill, County Durham, DH6 3NP, United Kingdom - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine - **Grade:** General practitioner - **Salary:** £11250.00 - **Contract type:** Fixed-Term - **Employment type:** Part-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-21T07:03:12.558Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/B0611-26-0018 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/B0611-26-0018/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=B0611-26-0018 - **Employer website:** https://www.southdurhamhealth.co.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a GP with a specialist interest in frailty to deliver two sessions per week on a Wednesday (Sorry we are unable to change the required day) within an integrated community-based service that launched 12 months ago. The team support the frail housebound population across Easington and Sedgefield. This role offers the chance to play a pivotal part in shaping and delivering proactive, person-centred care in collaboration with local stakeholders. The Proactive Service has recently launched which aims to bring joined-up, multidisciplinary support to patients to make a real difference in their health and wellbeing. Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for a visa. ### Main duties of the job - Conduct Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments (CGAs) remotely. - Perform medical, psychosocial, and medicines reviews, including advanced care planning. - Manage diagnostic tests, communicate outcomes to GPs, and provide follow-up reviews where necessary. - Make onward referrals to other specialties when appropriate. - Work within and support a multidisciplinary team (MDT) including geriatricians, nurses, therapists, and social care professionals. - Lead and facilitate MDT clinical decision-making processes. - Supervise and support clinical staff. - Take a leadership role in the development and expansion of frailty services. - Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, service pathways, and quality improvement initiatives. - Participate in research, clinical audit, and service governance beyond revalidation requirements. - Communicate effectively with patients, carers, colleagues, commissioners, and wider stakeholders. - Promote and implement innovative, remote care models and use of digital health tools, including AI-based transcription. - Uphold clinical governance standards and practice within national guidelines (e.g. NICE, GMC). - Take part in staff supervision, performance review, appraisal, and professional development. - Demonstrate emotional resilience, professionalism, and leadership under pressure and during service change. ### About us South Durham Health CiC is the managing agent for the 5 primary care networks (PCNs) in the Sedgefield and Easington localities. We also hold a number of NHS contracts providing additional services to our patient populations. We serve a combined patient population of 204,554 across 21 practices. We are early adopters of the Integrated Neighbourhood Team strategy and have already developed 2 Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) aligned to our future work against NHS key strategies. ### Details - Date posted: 21 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Other - Salary: £11,250 a session no pdp attached - Contract: Fixed term - Duration: 2 years - Working pattern: Part-time - Reference number: B0611-26-0018 - Job locations: The Surgery, Ashmore Terrace, Wheatley Hill, County Durham, DH6 3NP, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities The GPwER in Frailty will provide evidence based, comprehensive, person centred and individualised medical care for older people, working as part of a multidisciplinary team within community settings across South Durham The role whilst demanding and challenging and also requiring the post holder to possess the specialist frailty knowledge required to support the medical management of complex and challenging presentations of older frail people, will prove extremely varied and rewarding to the post holder. This care will be provided through our various community frailly workstreams The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, which includes Consultant Geriatricians, GPwERs, nurses, therapists, social care, the third sector and care home staff, to deliver high quality care and support for older people within the community. The post holder will contribute to service development, guideline development, research opportunities, and governance activities such as audit and quality improvement processes. The post holder will be expected to participate in the training and development of other members of the MDT and wider healthcare community and assume a leadership role in the care of older people in the community. The post holder will be expected to work autonomously with peer review and personal development opportunities. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (Remote) The management of patients referred into the service to include provision of medical, psychosocial, medicines reviews and advanced care planning to patients in their own homes. The communication of outcomes to the patient, their family and carers as well as their registered GP through the extended MDT. To carry out reviews of patients previously seen in the service, when this is deemed clinically necessary. To partake in the supervision of staff including ANPs and Registrars if and when the roles are integrated in to the service. Filing and management of diagnostic tests requested through the service. To support expansion and development of the service over time Support and facilitate MDT decision making in your role as the senior clinical leader Complete onward referrals to other specialties when appropriate Develop skills in the use of AI based transcription platforms Urgent Community Response Provide a CGA assessment with the rest of the MDT team for patient deemed suitable for review through the Urgent Community Response Pathway. This not a same day assessment pathway assessment. The patients will likely have multiple sub acute issues that requires support and facilitation through an MDT approach. The same approach is to be give to this patient group as outlined above. The post holder will be required to demonstrate excellent communication skills when working with patients, carers, members of the public, primary and secondary care colleagues, allied health care professionals, managers up to chief executive level, commissioners and the media. High level clinical judgement based on experience and clinical guidance is expected in patient management. High level analytical skills will also be required in the day to day operational management, governance and in strategic service development. The post will require a high level of personal organisation to deliver clinical and managerial responsibilities. Specifically, at service level, the post holder will have to plan and organise service development and change in areas of responsibility. Strategically, the post holder will require being a self-starter and taking personal responsibility for the development, organisation and delivery of service development in line with the needs of the contracted population. The physical skills requiring to be sustained are those required to achieve the CCT/CESR in their speciality e.g. hearing, vision and dexterity for minor procedures, mobility and legible handwriting. The post holder will actively contribute to both the day-to-day operations and the long-term development of the service, working closely with clinical and management teams. Internally, this will involve driving innovation to create a forward-thinking, cost-effective, and patient-focused service that makes use of new technologies and the expertise of a multidisciplinary team, in partnership with statutory and third-sector organisations. Externally, the role will include collaborating with members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure services meet the specific needs of the local population The post holder will have a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources and to maintain a secure working environment. The post holder will be responsible for the development and safe storage of person centred health care assessments, plans and electronic care records. The post holder may also be responsible for the managing and safe storage of electronic staff records, for example clinical supervision records. The post holder will be expected to participate in Quality and audit activity, beyond the minimum required for revalidation, to assure service quality and patient safety. The post holder will be expected to practice within the policies, procedures and guidelines of the organisation and service, and national bodies such as NICE, The Royal College of General Practice. S/he must practice within the ethical boundaries of Good Medical Practice as laid down by the GMC. The service model includes the following key principles: We actively engage with our service users and their families and carers and will utilise feedback from engagement activities to inform service development. The Integrated frailty service will support patient feedback through patient survey and friends and family opportunities. Our service model will combine clinical and cost effectiveness by providing access to a skilled and multiprofessional workforce. Care will be delivered in an innovative remote model where technology is used to enable remote working with the support of the MDT team. Providing education and support to primary care organisations, constituent practices and Other primary care providers to raise the general standard and consistency of care of the older person across primary care. Facilitating and encouraging the spread of good practice from within primary care across the whole health and social care community. Working with general practitioners, pharmacists, primary care nurses, social workers, mental health nurses, specialist community nurses and other health care staff such that current best practice is implemented within effective pathways within primary care. This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It may be subject to change in the light of developing organisational and service needs and wherever possible change will follow consultation with the post holder ### UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of supervising clinical staff to - Experience of continuing professional development. - Evidence of attendance at courses or self directed learning to meet learning gaps - identified through the professional development plan and through annual appraisal - Experience of conducting clinical audit **Desirable** - 1 year plus General Practice experience unless trainee has indicated additional skills to support appropriate experience in the field. - Diploma in Elderly Medicine. - Experience or formal qualifications or working with frail/ older people - Experience of designing, organising, teaching and training healthcare professionals and teaching patients. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register A medical degree qualification **Desirable** - A teaching qualification - e.g. post graduate diploma in post graduate education A post - Graduate qualification in older peoples care, - e.g. Diploma Geriatric Medicine or willing to work towards ### Attitude & Behaviour **Essential** - Sensitive to the needs of others and has an awareness and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs - Excellent command of the English Language both verbal and written - Values differences: regards people as individuals and appreciates the value of diversity in the workplace Able to work as part of a team, cooperating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate. - Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation. - Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload. - Positive attitude to dealing with change; flexible and adaptable, willing to change and accept change and to explore new ways of doing things and approaches. - Highly motivated, enthusiastic and reliable. - Has a strong degree of personal integrity; able to adhere to standards of conduct based on a sense of right and wrong and be dependable and reliable. - Demonstrates values consistent with those of the organisation. - Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required. ### Knowledge & Understanding **Essential** - Up to date knowledge of all the latest guidelines and evidence in older peoples medicine. - Understand the importance of evidence based practice and clinical eectiveness - Understanding of clinical governance - Sound clinical knowledge. - Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making **Desirable** - Experience of SystmOne, - Experience of Heidi health ### Teaching & Training experience **Essential** - Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines. The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff ### Practical & Intellectual skills **Essential** - High level of clinical skills. - Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team. - High level of communication skills. - Good organisational skills. - IT competency - Ability to make good clear concise medical notes, both computerised and manual - Able to work under pressure and within an ever changing environment - Ability to balance service and personal objectives. **Desirable** - Interest in research ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.