As an LED, you will have appropriate clinical responsibility for the care of patients delegated by the consultant to his/her charge. You will have co-responsibility for the proper functioning of the department, including supervision of more junior medical staff, working within the multidisciplinary team, and coordinating appropriate medical, surgical, and allied disciplines concerned with patient care while communicating appropriately with general practitioners and community agencies.
This is an exciting position that will give a breadth of experience to many trainees, whether their future career lies in Medicine, General Practice, Emergency Medicine, or potentially Anaesthetics with an interest in peri-operative medicine.
We are a busy trauma unit seeing 470 hip or femur fractures a year. Patient care is jointly provided by the Orthopaedic surgeons and the Orthogeriatric consultants. In addition, the orthogeriatric medicine team provides medical care to peri-prosthetic fractures, and the aim is to spread this joint care model to include all frail older trauma patients.
You will become part of the orthogeriatric medicine team consisting of a Consultant Orthogeriatrician, a Physician Associate (PA), a specialist Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP), and the orthogeriatric medicine locally employed doctor (this post), alongside the Orthopaedic junior team.
The orthogeriatric medicine team is fully integrated with the orthopaedic team and the orthopaedic MDT, starting the working day in the trauma meeting Monday-Friday at 08:00 with the orthopaedic surgeons. It is essential that the post-holder is able to commit to attending these meetings.
The HOP Team currently has 8.9 WTE Consultants plus Specialty GPs and Specialty Doctors. We also have a Nurse Consultant in Frailty and a range of Physicians Associate, Advanced Clinical Practice, and Specialist Nurse roles. We work very closely with our colleagues in stroke, and in addition to Totnes Hospital, we support 3 acute wards, a Frailty SDEC, a Frailty Virtual Ward, as well as delivering an Orthogeriatrics service and hosting the Parkinson’s Disease service, which we jointly run with the Neurology Team.
You will be part of the Healthcare of Older People department, and we run a weekly teaching session on a Friday lunchtime that can offer training in geriatric care and a forum for you to provide a teaching session.
Your day-to-day decision making will be supported by a middle grade, and there will be a weekly consultant-led ward round.
There may be opportunities for this post to gain experience in other areas of the service.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Jonny Hacon Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: jonathan.hacon@nhs.net Telephone number: 01803 656982
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