Role Overview

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.

• 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.
• Hold clinical responsibility and accountability for agreed patients while they are under the care of The Harbour.
• Provide senior clinical decision-making and leadership to the multidisciplinary Harbour team and deputise for the GP Lead in their absence.
• Work across acute care, The Harbour and existing community services, particularly Urgent Community Response (UCR), accessing same-day interventions where appropriate.
• Work with intermediate care, Primary Care and the wider community multidisciplinary team.
• Deliver high-quality specialist assessment and intervention for older people living with frailty, using the principles of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).
• Use point-of-care testing, digital monitoring and other appropriate clinical support to facilitate care delivery.
• Where appropriate, contribute to the training and supervision of other Harbour clinicians including trainee and qualified advanced clinical practitioners and resident doctors.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement, data evaluation and teaching.