General Practitioner

We’re seeking a motivated GP with a passion for frailty care to join our dynamic West Kent Home Treatment Service. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of an expanding multidisciplinary frailty team, delivering high‑quality, proactive care to patients in their own homes and community settings.

In this role, you’ll work closely with Primary Care, Secondary Care, Social Care, Mental Health services and Commissioners to provide a responsive, integrated service for people living with frailty. You’ll play a key part in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, supporting timely intervention and improving quality of life for some of our most vulnerable patients.

Our frailty service includes geriatric consultants, consultant practitioners, specialty doctors, GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and trainee ACPs. As a developing service, we’re committed to growing our team and strengthening our partnership with the acute trust to enhance continuity, collaboration and innovation in frailty care.

If you’re a GP who values multidisciplinary working, enjoys complex clinical decision‑making and wants to shape the future of community frailty services, we’d love to welcome you to our team.

Role

As a key clinician you’ll play a central role in delivering high‑quality, community‑based care for people living with frailty. You will:

• Lead and contribute to comprehensive geriatric assessments alongside our multidisciplinary team
• Provide expert clinical input in patients’ homes, offering advice, review and timely intervention
• Support IV cannulation and IV management with the nursing team when required
• Manage acute deterioration, making safe, autonomous decisions about treatment at home or transfer to hospital
• Participate fully in MDT meetings, board rounds, strategic discussions and service development
• Contribute to personalised care plans and monitor progress against agreed goals

Prescribe in line with Trust Medicines Management policy and work closely with Pharmacy for support

Collaborate with GPs, Adult Services, KCHFT doctors, Complex Care Nurses, Community Rehab, Safeguarding, Social Care and acute medical teams

Engage in ongoing professional development, training, clinical governance and audit

Support quality improvement initiatives and participate in mortality reviews

Be available for appropriate consultation

Work in accordance with Trust policies, including NEWS2 and DNACPR guidance

This is a role for a GP who thrives in a collaborative, community‑focused environment and wants to make a meaningful impact on frailty care across West Kent

Additional Working Pattern: part-time considered, includes some weekend working

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Renee Dunford Job title: Business Support Manager Email address: renee.

dunford@nhs.net