Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care & Rehabilitation Medicine

Type: Permanent

Date Posted: 25-Jan-23

Closing Date: 30-Mar-23

Location: Petersfield, GU32 3LB

Salary: Not specified

Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care & Rehabilitation Medicine

Seeking a new team member to work across two step-up, step-down community elderly care rehabilitation wards in Petersfield Community Hospital, Hampshire. Working alongside an experienced Specialty Doctor, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and guided by a Community Consultant Geriatrician and Nurse Consultant in Frailty, you will become part of an expanding, exciting and outward looking team. Opportunities to work in the Laurel (rapid) Assessment Unit and to undertake community assessments (following 1 to 1 training, if required) will be available; as these increasingly become part of our community support service.We see our Petersfield frailty services working in an increasing, close relationship with a similar Southern Health team and services at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and Solent NHS Trust teams in Portsmouth City. Working in the near future, to establish a Portsmouth and South East Hampshire locality Frailty network and
Single Point of Access.Further information, about the role, locality and our community transformation plans, can be obtained from the following. Candidates are encouraged to visit and should contact:Dr Steve Plenderleith, Medical Director, SE Division, SHFT -Steve.plenderleith@southernhealth.nhs.uk,02380 250001 Helen Carter, PAJulian Kerr, Nurse Consultant, Older Peoples Care – Julian.Kerr@southernhealth.nhs.uk