GPwER in Frailty

Job summary

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.

About us

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

Details

Date posted

18 March 2026

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Specialty Doctor

Salary

£61,542 to £121,016 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

318-26-GPwERFRAILTY

Job locations

Gloucester Royal Hospital

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

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