Consultant Care of the Elderly - Acute Frailty
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area: Geriatric Medicine
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 10 sessions per week (Full time 10 pa's per week)
Job ref: 331-L0980924
Site: Royal Lancaster Infirmary
Town: Lancaster
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/10/2024 23:59
"Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work"
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
Application for this substantive post will only be accepted if you hold full GMC registration with a license to practice and entry on the Specialist Register or anticipating being in receipt of CCT/Professional Portfolio (formally CESR) within six months of interview.
An opportunity has arisen for Consultant Geriatricians within our Frailty services at Royal Lancaster Infirmary working across our Frailty Intervention Team and wider Frailty Services.
This role is an exciting opportunity for you to be part of developing a new model of care for the Morecambe Bay population living with frailty.
The Frailty Intervention Team pathway works on a "early intervention, better outcomes" philosophy with a focus to returning patients to their usual place of residence on the same day as presenting in the Emergency Department where appropriate.
The Frailty Intervention Team is a developing team with approval for further MDT roles which, with successful recruitment, will become 7 day Frailty service.
As the service develops, it will continue to build strong links with our community services and establish formal links with pre-hospital urgent and emergency care services to offer direct referrals.
This is an exciting time for our services and we hope you will want to play a part in developing a gold standard service which will achieve our aim of delivering excellent care in the Morecambe Bay area for our Frail and older patients.
Main duties of the job
The successful appointee will be expected to:
* Undertake patient assessments for Frail & Older patients attending the emergency department to help patients return to their normal place of residency at the earliest opportunity
* Provide care for acutely unwell, frail patients on the AFU
* Review appropriate patients classed as Outliers
* Contribute to service development and quality improvement
* Provide leadership and work as part of and develop our team
You will ensure, with Consultant colleagues that the department provides an effective 7 day service, within national and local standards. This would mean each consultant would be doing a 1:5 weekend shift in our Frailty Intervention Team service.
You will join in the running of the Department, and share the management of patients under the care of the team, in order to help achieve national key performance indicators relevant to geriatric medicine.
The appointment will be for 10 programmed activity sessions which would include direct clinical care and supporting professional activity. The number of programmed activities may be negotiated down or up.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website here.
Person specification
Qualifications/Skills
* Full registration with the General Medical Council MRCP or equivalent.
* Certificate of completion in specialist training (CCT) in general internal medicine (GIM) and geriatric medicine or within 6 months of completion of training at the time of interview.
* MD or PhD degree
Experience
* Broad exposure to medical diseases and the management of these
* Comprehensive patient management, ability to train/supervise junior medical staff and medical students
The Behavioural Standards Framework
Everybody’s responsibility in everything we do.
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The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.
The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.
We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr Mark Taylor
Job title: Consultant Geriatrician Frailty Clinical Lead RLI
Email address: mark.taylor1@mbht.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07918613298
Additional information: Anna Nelson or Iona Worthington
Service manager & Deputy Service Manager - Stroke, Frailty & CotE
Email: anna.nelson@mbht.nhs.uk / iona.worthington@mbht.nhs.uk
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