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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

This post offers an exciting opportunity to join the Orthogeriatric Service to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. 

Kingston Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty, so this post offers an opportunity to participate in developing the management of patients with fractured neck of femur and other fragility fractures in South West London. 

The Trauma and Orthopaedic admissions unit has 36 beds and is well supported by an integrated multidisciplinary team, led by two Orthogeriatric Consultants who are responsible for assessing and managing the majority of unscheduled emergency elderly care orthopaedic admissions to the unit throughout the week. Our ward based clinical team is well established and prides itself in being patient focused. We are looking to attract enthusiastic, high calibre candidates who are passionate about delivering first-class compassionate care. With training and skills across orthogeriatric medicine, an interest in falls prevention and bone health this role would be an exciting opportunity to mobilise change and improve patient’s clinical outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Our working model for the Orthogeriatric Consultants delivers alternating trauma ‘take’ weeks, with the vision to provide fragility community outreach and outpatient clinics to support discharge planning for some of our must vulnerable patients. 

We are excited to be announcing the development of our Fracture Prevention Service, which will go live in January 2025. The orthogeriatric team will be leading this service, working collaboratively with our rheumatology and community based partners to identify and support patients at risk of fracture.

The Orthogeriatric team work closely with the Orthopaedic Surgeons, Anaesthetic Consultants and the wider Care of the Elderly team, with combined Risk & Governance structures to promote shared learning.

This is an established post, currently covered by a locum consultant. The post does not include on call commitments; however the service would be happy to consider participation if candidates were interested.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust is a thriving hospital, located close to Richmond Park, Kingston town centre and central London and is readily accessible by public transport. Our Acute Assessment Unit is comprised of 50 assessment beds and is developing a Same Day Emergency Care Unit for our Acute Emergency Care outpatients and day cases. This unit is fed directly by GP referrals and also from our Emergency Department which is a Trauma Centre seeing over 100,000 attendances per year. There are 350 acute adult inpatient beds and a 12 bedded ITU.