Employer: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Danetre Hospital
Town: Daventry
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Consultant in Geriatric Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This is a great opportunity to apply for a Consultant post in Geriatric medicine, working as part of the consultant team, with specialist interests in community geriatrics and ICT. This post is in a dynamic, expanding department concerned with community medicine for older people and ICT. It is a new post based at Daventry community hospital which has 35 beds including 6 general palliative care beds.
Main duties of the job
In addition to providing services at the community hospital with elderly care beds, the post holder is also expected to provide 4 sessions to ICT. The post is supported by three speciality doctors. There are close working relationships with other community hospitals run by the trust located at Corby, Isebrook, and Brackley. The post holder is expected to be a part of the wider team which consists of two consultants and 5 middle grade doctors. The role in the ICT is supported by one middle grade doctor and a wider team including nursing and therapy colleagues, and prescribers. The ICT team also has 2 other consultants to provide cover for the remaining 6 sessions. In addition, there are opportunities for working with the Older Adult Mental Health team.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work, or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details regarding this post please see the attached job description or contact the team below.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Full registration and licence to practice with the GMC. MRCP(UK) or equivalent Entry to the GMC specialist register (or expected within 6 months) via CCT. Candidates from CESR must be on the specialist register at the time of application.
* Ability to offer expert clinical opinion in the field of Geriatric medicine.
* Experience of supervising resident doctors.
* Member of British Geriatrics Society.
* Experience of working with community teams.
* Experience working in acute settings in ED/Frailty Assessment Unit.
Experience
* Ability to manage and lead medical teams.
* Experience of Rehabilitation in a variety of settings.
* Understanding of key issues in the interface between secondary and primary/intermediate care.
* Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates.
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