A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking to appoint two x LTFT locum consultants in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine.
We are looking for one colleague to work with existing consultants at the Horton Hospital providing ambulatory care in the Rowan Ambulatory Unit and Acute General Medicine on-calls (post 1). The second job will rotating through peri-operative areas at the John Radcliffe and Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospitals with Acute General medicine at the Horton and John Radcliffe Hospitals (post 2). Both jobs will include a General Geriatric Medicine clinic at the John Radcliffe site.
To provide consultant supervision and decision making for inpatient perioperative services, geriatric wards, SDEC and Acute General Medicine on-call. This will also include the governance and teaching as fitting a consultant post.
The Trust is a NHS Digital exemplar as one of 12 Trusts on a fast track to becoming paperless. This Directorate has been at the forefront of this change having led the e-prescribing rollout. New colleagues are expected to support this ongoing work; training will be provided.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching and acute trusts, and is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence. Many surgical services are regional services, multisite, with the bulk of the emergency work being undertaken at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and with predominantly elective surgical services at the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; a small-moderate volume of surgical work is undertaken at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Perioperative Medicine:OUH has an established perioperative medicine service in the acute Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU) and hip fractures. Over the last few years our services have expanded to provide consultant-led medical perioperative care to the major trauma, elective orthopaedics and the vascular services. We also form a part of the TAVI MDT. We particularly focus on older patients having emergency surgery, and patients with complex co-morbidities.
General Internal Medicine: Each appointee will spend 8 weeks each year in Acute General Medicine (AGM) on the Horton Hospital in Banbury. AGM on both hospital sites has recently undergone reconfiguration with a greater focus of the acute medical teams on Acute Medicine (first 72hrs of care) and Complex Medicine (anticipated LOS >72hrs).
The Horton is a District General Hospital in Banbury with an Emergency Department admitting a largely unselected medical take, although some specialist services (e.g. STEMIs, acute general surgery) go directly to John Radcliffe. There is a team of at least 8 general physicians based at the Horton operating a team with ward-based structure, with on-call currently 1 in 8.
Ambulatory Units: based at Horton and the John Radcliffe Hospitals, these offer senior clinician-led multidisciplinary assessment and ambulatory treatment. All areas have access to point of care testing as well as plain radiology. You will be expected to coordinate and review the care of up to 25 patients per day and supervise advanced care practitioners and junior doctors. Direct phone support to local GPs is provided. Over 80% of patients are managed on an ambulatory basis.
Complex Medicine Units:At the John Radcliffe Hospital site;four wardsmanaging acutely unwell patients with the support of a true multidisciplinary team. Common presentations are geriatric syndromes of falls, delirium and immobility for which the underlying aetiology is to be worked up and managed in conjunction with preventing further harms of in-hospital stays.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Apr 2025
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