Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatrics
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 151-FPHCON-26 M
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Geriatrics
Consultant
Job overview
The Trust is keen to develop an outstanding geriatric service and is looking for a highly motivated and innovative physician to supplement the present team.
The vision for this new post is to creatively expand our Medicine for Older People service and design posts with and around an individual who may wish to develop services in orthogeriatric, stroke, community geriatrics, Parkinson’s, acute frailty, rehabilitation, or other aspects of geriatric medicine. There is scope for part-time and flexible working and the department may wish to carry out team Job Planning and/or annualisation, depending on the team membership.
Main duties of the job
We expect daily consultant presence on the acute wards with daily MDT board rounds and review of new admissions and unwell patients and twice weekly ward rounds. We support a 7-day acute frailty service and frailty virtual ward as well as weekly ward rounds of our community inpatients.
Teaching and development of medical students and trainees is an integral part of the role as well as participation in research and audit activities in the department. Duties may also include teaching, lectures or workshops for other departments, nurses, GPs and others.
Working for our organisation
Frailty is a priority for the Frimley Integrated Care System and as a department we are actively involved with designing systems of care for older people with frailty in our population.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There is flexibility in the Job Plans for the design of an optimal service.
There is currently a 1:18 acute medical on-call rota for day or night takes. There is also a second on call 1:9 for medicine covering medical admissions unit and Elderly care zone on the weekends as part of 7 day working.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP (UK)
- CCT in elderly care medicine (or within 6 months of achieving at the time of application)
Desirable criteria
- MD/PhD
- Other post-graduate degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Delivery of inpatient and outpatient elderly medical care
- Involvement in unselected medical take
- Involvement in the design of elderly care services/pathways.
- Ability to make decisions at the level of a consultant
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to function as a specialty Consultant and lead a team of junior trainees
- Ability to organise and manage a clinical service
- Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of good spoken and written English
- Experience of teaching medical students and junior trainees
Desirable criteria
- Leadership of professional bodies or committees
- Evidence of written communication in publications
- Post graduate qualifications in medical education
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lucy Abbott
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815 046909
- Additional information
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