Job Description

This is a 0.6 WTE post jointly funded by Health Education England working across Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) as part of the Multi-Professional Fellow Programme. This programme allows the Fellow multiple opportunities including a PG cert in Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning, bespoke education and mentorship by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and the ability to develop skills in project management and evaluation.

Please note:

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.



We are hiring a Clinical Fellow for Acute Frailty with Community Interface at Frimley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This post involves three days per week in the fellowship role. You will be a member of the Medicine for Older People directorate as well as close interaction with the education department. It is a great opportunity for any applicant interested in gaining experience in service development and transformation. The aim of this fellowship is to establish clear pathways to support early discharge of frail, older patients from ED to their own home. We will be looking at establishing, for example, pathways for community management of fractures at home and integrating community heart failure/COPD and UCR teams. Once pathways are established, they will become part of business as usual. The position requires a postgraduate medical professional at ST1+ level with strong interpersonal and communication skills and a keen interest in acute frailty and individualised care as well leadership and management skills.



Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.



Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.



We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.



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Medical management of our frail, older patients should be individualised and, ideally, in their own environment. At Frimley, we have had excellent success with are 2 hour Urgent Community Response Team (Hospital@Home) as well as our Frailty Team. Our patients benefit from both services and, particularly noticeable with the UCR patients, we can see the significant benefits of this individualised, home first approach. We want to improve the interaction between these two teams as well as the assessment of frail, older patients in the Emergency Department. We want to improve the assessment of these patients with appropriate, timely triage and using the home first principle.



You will be sponsored to complete postgraduate certificate level academic studies at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) as an integral part of the role. Fellows will be supported to network and collaborate with colleagues on the programme from different professional backgrounds and across geographical communities in KSS to enhance learning and developments.