GP – The Harbour Frailty Service: Sponsorship Available

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

As part of the wider Healthcare of Older People (HOP) team, the post-holder will be based in The Harbour service at Newton Abbot Hospital, providing senior clinical decision-making and clinical leadership to enable people living with frailty to receive timely assessment, treatment and care closer to home. The role incorporates frailty coordination and telephone triage, Harbour @ Home (frailty virtual ward), same day emergency care (SDEC) with direct access to community hospital beds at Newton Abbot Hospital.This post includes contributing to evening and weekend rotas.

Main duties of the job

o Be part of the frailty coordination function, providing clinical telephone triage to referrers including SWASFT, Primary Care, community teams, acute hospital wards, the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit (AMU), identifying the most appropriate way to meet the patient’s acute needs.o Hold clinical responsibility and accountability for agreed patients while they are under the care of The Harbouro Provide senior clinical decision-making and leadership to the multidisciplinary Harbour team and deputise for the GP Lead in their absence.o Work across acute care, The Harbour and existing community services, particularly Urgent Community Response (UCR), accessing same-day interventions where appropriate.o Work with intermediate care, Primary Care and the wider community multidisciplinary team.o Deliver high-quality specialist assessment and intervention for older people living with frailty, using the principles of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).o Use point-of-care testing, digital monitoring and other appropriate clinical support to facilitate care deliveryo Where appropriate, contribute to the training and supervision of other Harbour clinicians including trainee and qualified advanced clinical practitioners and resident doctorso Contribute to service development, quality improvement, data evaluation and teaching.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration and a Licence to Practice with the GMC
  • MRCGP or equivalent
  • On the GP Performer’s List or on/transferring to TSDFT responsible officer/appraisal pathway
  • Up to date with appraisal and revalidation requirements

Desirable

  • MD or PhD
  • Additional qualification relating to frailty and acute care, e.g. Diploma in Geriatric Medicine, MRCP or MSc
  • Membership of the British Geriatrics Society

Knowledge

Essential

  • Wide experience managing complex older patients with co morbidities and frailty syndromes, including anticipatory care planning in frailty and dementia care
  • Familiarity with frailty identification and management
  • Knowledge and understanding of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and frailty syndromes
  • Experienced in managing and holding clinical risk in community settings

Desirable

  • Clinical experience in end of life care/ care home medicine/ Acute medicine

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 5 October 2026

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