Main area: Elderly Care
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (Plus 1 additional PA subject to negotiation)
Job ref: 407-MLTC-6618380
Employer: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Town: Walsall
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/12/2024 23:59
Elderly Care Consultant - Medicine
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and homebased care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.
We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.
Following our recent CQC visit the Trust was rated as outstanding for care and this has been recognised by NHS Improvement.
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.
Job overview
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust are seeking to appoint an Elderly Care Consultant in Geriatric Medicine to support the acute elderly services. The posts will be working for 10 Programmed Activities (PA) per week with an additional PA available (subject to negotiation). The postholders will join a team of Elderly Care consultants to provide high quality patient care and support surgical patients who are undergoing emergency laparotomy.
The postholder will participate in a 1 in 18 on-call consultant rota for General Medicine during weekdays and weekends (1 PA per week will be remunerated). The weekend commitment includes morning and evening ward rounds in conjunction with an AMU Consultant covering all patients admitted to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU). There will be a requirement for 1 in 4 Saturday ward cover from 09:00 – 13:00. There is a requirement to review surgical patients on demand (0.75 PA) for this 1 in 4 Saturdays.
Main duties of the job
The main duties are of the role will include the following:
* To provide high-quality clinical care to patients in Elderly Care and General Internal Medicine services.
* To provide advice to colleagues in other specialities on elderly patients with problems (surgery).
* To support teaching and training of nurses, junior medical staff, medical students and contribute to postgraduate medical education.
* To undertake educational/clinical supervisor duties for junior doctors.
* To support and encourage audit and research.
* To actively participate in CPD and personal development plans.
* To lead on the POP service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Basic Medical Degree
* Full MRCP or equivalent
* Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for Geriatric and General Internal Medicine via CCT, European Community Rights or CESR.
Experience
* Evidence of Higher Specialist Training in Elderly Care Medicine (or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of interview).
* Wide experience in Elderly care Medicine equivalent to that required for a UK CCT.
* Ability to offer expert clinical advice on a range of problems.
* Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients.
Management and Administrative Experience
* Good organisational and management skills.
* Ability to manage and lead within the Elderly Care Team.
* Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
* Ability to plan strategically and exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures.
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff including SpR/StR level.
* Ability to teach clinical and operative skills.
* Evidence of management and administration experience.
* Demonstration of leadership skills.
Clinical Effectiveness
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
* Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making.
* Evidence of research experience and published work.
Professional and Multi-Disciplinary Team Working
* Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
Other Requirements
* An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues.
Personal Circumstances
* Appropriate Immigration Status.
* Residence within 30 minutes of Manor Hospital.
* Full GMC Registration and Licensable.
* Good leadership and interpersonal skills.
* Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure.
* Caring attitude to patients.
* Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level.
Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
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