GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Frailty – Development Role
GPwER
Main area Integrated Community Services – Frailty Grade GPwER Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 10 hours per week Job ref 810-7844933-A
Site Jean Bishop Centre Town Hull Salary £116,854.40 - £128,539.84 pa/pr Salary period Yearly Closing 10/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
This is a great opportunity to build your clinical skills in community frailty work while supporting older people to stay well and independent.
As a GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Older People, you’ll work within a supportive multidisciplinary team. You will provide evidence‑based, person‑centred medical care for people living with frailty. The role offers varied and rewarding work across our community frailty pathways, helping people manage complex needs in a way that respects their choices and goals.
Main duties of the job
What you’ll do:
- Provide individualised medical assessments and care planning for older people with frailty
- Work closely with nurses, therapists and wider colleagues to deliver joined‑up community support
- Use specialist frailty knowledge to guide the management of complex presentations
- Contribute to our community frailty workstreams and help improve the service
- Build strong relationships with patients, families and partner services
What we’re looking for:
- A qualified GP with experience or interest in frailty, complex care or community medicine
- Strong clinical reasoning skills and a commitment to person‑centred care
- Confidence working within a multidisciplinary team and across community settings
- A flexible, collaborative approach and readiness to learn and develop
- We welcome applicants from varied clinical backgrounds who can bring transferable skills
The ability to communicate professionally and effectively whilst in a caring manner with patients and their carers together with experience of working within a multi‑disciplinary team are also essential, as is working experience/knowledge of local pathways and referral procedures.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Full and current unrestricted GMC (UK) registration on the GP Register
- A post graduate qualification in older people’s care, e.g., Diploma Geriatric Medicine
- A teaching qualification e.g post graduate diploma in post graduate education
Experience
- Post GMC registration training in care of older people
- Experience of supervising clinical staff to ensure clinical standards are met.
- Experience of continuing professional development.
- Evidence of attendance at courses or self directed learning to meet learning gaps identified through the professional development plan and through annual appraisal
- Experience of conducting clinical audit
- Experience of designing, organising, teaching and training healthcare professionals and teaching patients
- Up to date knowledge of all the latest guidelines and evidence in older peoples medicine
- Understand the importance of evidence based practice and clinical effectiveness
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Sound clinical knowledge.
- Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making
- Experience of SystmOne, Emis and Lorenzo clinical systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
