Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Acute Frailty Care and Clinical Lecturer
The Department of Medicine for Older People wishes to appoint a Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Acute Frailty Care. The post holder will work alongside other geriatricians to develop innovative 7-day services for older people, both within the hospitals and community. They will work with colleagues across sites to develop a seamless, equitable service. This role is for a consultant to support acute frailty services and general geriatric ward cover at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen sites.
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The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
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Minimum Requirements
* MB ChB or equivalent
* MRCP (or equivalent)
* Full registration with the GMC and licence to practice
* On GMC specialist register for Geriatric and General Medicine or eligible for specialist register
* CCT in Geriatric and General Medicine (or equivalent training) or 6 months of attaining CCT at time of interview
Desirable Criteria
* Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
* Higher degree such as MD or PhD
* Evidence of continuing medical education
* Geriatric and General Medicine experience across the specialties and for the duration required for CCT
* Evidence of training and education (PGCE)
* Proven track record in significant audit
* Publication of audit results
* Involvement in research
* Publication of research
* Evidence of delivery of education, both undergraduate and postgraduate
* Good understanding of 'Good Medical Practice' from the GMC
The successful applicant will be expected to work alongside other geriatric team members to continue to develop and provide an innovative acute frailty service with commitment to continue to improve quality of care for older frail people and provide CGA with the MDT. They will have sessional work to support the acute frailty services in the emergency areas. The job plan will develop as the service develops supported by the senior leadership team.
The post holder will have sessional work on the general geriatric wards and re-ablement wards where they will work alongside the Geriatrics consultants to deliver comprehensive geriatric assessment to patients requiring inpatient care. These sessions will involve responsibility for leading MDT based CGA care on this ward. The in-patient wards comprise 14 beds with on average 2-4 new admissions each day. The post will be supported by trainees/ junior doctors and Advanced Nurse Practitioners at the Broadgreen and Royal Liverpool sites predominantly. There will also be STR support on a sessional basis.
The out-patient work will be supported in our MDT geriatric outpatient department with support from nurses and therapy staff. The ratio from new to follow up will be developed as this is a new clinic. There are ambitions to develop rapid access frailty services as an alternative to admission.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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