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Medicine for the Elderly - Consultant Physician, Dundee
Client: NHS Scotland
Location: Dundee, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: dac4160e3978
Job Views: 5
Posted: 24.04.2025
Expiry Date: 08.06.2025
Job Description:
NHS TAYSIDE
Consultant-Medicine for the Elderly
Dundee HSCP
Applications are invited for a Medicine for the Elderly (MFE) Consultant post to join the innovative Medicine for the Elderly Team in Dundee. Opportunity has arisen from a recent retirement.
Dundee has a diverse and integrated geriatric model across acute hospital (Ninewells Hospital) services to our communities. The acute component includes a 7 day per week multidisciplinary Acute Frailty Team, a 24 bedded Acute Medicine for the Elderly Unit (AME Unit) as a separate ward in the Medical Admission Unit and a recently opened second 18 bedded AME Unit. This innovative front door model has strong, integrated community links with staff working across this interface, which facilitates seamless early community discharge. In addition, in Ninewells Hospital, we have a 24 bedded geriatric assessment and rehabilitation unit (Ward 5) aimed at managing acute severe illness in frail people, while at the same time rehabilitating to protect loss of functional ability.
This frailty front door service is a key component of the Tayside Unscheduled Care model which is nationally leading.
Outwith the acute hospital we have flourishing community care models with community hospitals and Royal Victoria Hospital the centre for step-down rehabilitation in Dundee. We have a strong community presence and support Enhanced Community Support (ECS) with regular GP practice based MDT meetings supported by designated locality MFE consultants aligned to each GP practice. In addition to this we also have Dundee Enhanced Care at Home Team (DECAHT) which is essentially a form of hospital at home model which supports our ambitions to manage as many frail people in their own home, if safe to do so.
At the heart of our model is this locality working where the team concentrate on the care of older people in one of the four specific Dundee localities or GP clusters. This delivers population continuity of care across in-patient and the community so as an MFE consultant you are enabled to manage the care of the same frail person in the community, at outpatients and while an in-patient throughout an older person’s life. It is a very holistic and rewarding model to work in.
We are supported by a great team of career grade doctors, as well as MFE Advanced Nurse Practitioners and nurse consultants. This level of support allows each consultant to function at the senior level we aspire to and lead in care delivery to our respective populations, without necessarily having to individually deliver all the vast amount of care needed.
The Medicine for the Elderly team has a strong senior speciality doctor and consultant group with no unfilled posts. The Dundee Health and Social Care Partnership and NHS Tayside have an ambitious strategy for Older People which demonstrates commitment to this population. Rewardingly, much of the leadership in Tayside is clinically co-led, which genuinely allows a clinical voice and input into care models. The Medicine for the Elderly team are at the heart of this leadership model and so have a VERY strong voice allowing continuous service progression across the whole system to the benefit of older people in Tayside.
Innovation and continuous service improvement is the norm in Tayside, hence our ambitious strategy around frailty in our surgical division. The Surgical Acute Frailty Team has been successful with supporting emergency surgery with plans to extend into elective surgery including pre-assessment. Our Tayside Trauma and Orthopaedic Frailty Team has also developed over the last few years and in addition, as part of our remobilisation plan there is significant focus in Tayside on planned/elective care and developing this orthogeriatric arm of this service is part of the vision.
The consultant post will be tailored to an applicant’s needs however we are keen to appoint a candidate with a subspecialty interest in Movement Disorders to lead the Dundee Parkinsons Service. There is a strong culture of teaching, education and service improvement in Tayside and so the successful post holder would have ample non-clinical time in job plan to support deliver against these ambitions. Final job plan would be agreed with successful candidate but indicative job plan would be 8 PA DCC to 2 PA non DCC.
Candidates can work fulltime or part time. Weekend and evening working is required, as is out of hours. We are truly flexible.
For informal enquiries please contact:
Dr Alison McCulloch, Clinical Lead, Medicine for the Elderly, Ninewells Hospital.
Dr Douglas Lowdon, Tayside Medicine for the Elderly Clinical Lead, 07989 609379 or email; [emailprotected]
For further information on how to apply please visit www.medicaljobs.scot.nhs.uk.
NHS Tayside is an equal opportunities employer and positive about disabled people.
Closing Date for Applications is 5th May 2025
Interviews will be held on 26th May 2025
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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