Elderly Care Clinician

34 hours per week

Monday to Friday

Clevedon Medical Centre is in a small coastal town 10 miles south of Bristol and caters for 16,700 patients. We have 5 partners and 8 salaried GPs as well as an extensive clinical team comprising Treatment Room and Practice Nurses, an Elderly Care Nurse, ANPs, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Physios and Pharmacy Technician. We look after the rehabilitation wards at the Community Hospital and with an extensive elderly population have responsibility for the care of patients in 9 care homes (some of which are for patients with Learning Disabilities). We are a long-established teaching practice and many of our GP trainees have joined us as salaried GPs and Partners.

We have a practice ethos of working flexibly, and always ensuring we support our team. We are also a social practice who regularly meet for lunch and coffee, alongside evening meals and Clevedon park run!

We are looking for an experienced registered nurse or paramedic to work with our practice to deliver a specialist elderly care service to our care home residents. This will involve conducting long-term condition reviews which may include diabetes, dementia, learning disabilities, COPD/ asthma, heart failure and more (depending on experience). Some experience in long-term condition annual reviews is essential. The post-holder will also carry out visits/ ward rounds to independently deliver minor illness-type clinical care; some experience in minor illness is desirable.

The successful candidate will conduct the initial assessment, investigations and management of acute presentation, and will work independently. More complex cases, alongside palliative care will be taken to and discussed with the care home’s named lead GP on the monthly care home ward round. Some on the job training can be provided, and the hope is that the successful candidate will either already hold or will be working towards a prescribing qualification.

You must have a passion for quality of care and a personality that enjoys working both independently and within a multidisciplinary team.

The role is for 34 hours per week, working Monday to Friday. Salary is dependent on experience.

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV to Abbie.Rickwood@nhs.net or Deborah.Gadd@nhs.net

Closing date: Friday 9th August 2024