Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff
Consultant in Geriatric and General Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area Healthcare of older people Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week) Job ref 164-7011675
Site Queen's Medical Centre Town Nottingham Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/03/2025 23:59 Interview date 09/05/2025
Job overview
The HCOP specialty is looking to recruit a consultant in Geriatric and General Medicine with a responsibility in Acute Geriatric Medicine for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Working in the Heath Care of Older People (HCOP) specialty the post-holder will be able to discuss their job plan with the specialty. They are reviewed annually. They are likely to include some of the following:
1. Shared consultant responsibility on 1 of our 8 acute/subacute HCOP wards, improve our commitment to frail older people within the acute medical and frailty pathway
2. Cover Geriatric Assessment Unit (GAU) and HCOP In Reach to ED.
3. Share support to Community geriatrics and various surgical liaison services (including outliers).
Main duties of the job
The role of the acute medical Geriatrician has been developed over the last 5 years to provide specialist HCOP medical input to frail older people within the acute medical admission pathway. Our experience shows that patients who are on the Geriatric Assessment Unit, working with a multidisciplinary team results in more frail older people being discharged earlier in the pathway.
We in-reach into the Emergency Department and work alongside the emergency physicians in identifying frailty at the front door. We have also been part of the Acute Frailty Network and labelled a beacon site by them. More consultant geriatricians are being appointed to enable us to deliver this service more consistently across the week. We expect these roles to develop and change over the coming months and years as the acute medical pathways are reviewed so they are better able to meet the increasing demands being put on them.
Working for our organisation
The specialty of HCOP sits managerially within the Division of Medicine alongside Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Stroke Medicine, Diabetic Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. The Division of Medicine is split into 3 directorates. HCOP sits within the Integrated Care Directorate with Stroke.
NUH is a Centre of Excellence in the clinical care, teaching and research of Health Care of Older People. We have developed a broad range of subspecialties to meet patient need across the health community and our aim is to ensure that this continues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see details of responsibilities and job description within the Job description attached to this advert.
The following draft Job Plan reflects our best assessment of what the final plan will be, based on 10 PAs. For all new consultants to NUH, we offer 8PA’s DCC and 2 SPA’s for the first year. The NUH Geriatric service, alongside all other Royal College of Physicians Group I Medical Services / Specialties at NUH, provides a 0.5PA job planned contribution per new Consultant appointment, to support the unselected and / or generalist needs of our patients. This commitment may be provided by the appointee or shared across the Service.
Any consultant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post on a part-time basis; if such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues.
All new consultants can access a mentor within the department or an external mentor can be arranged. There is a new consultants group in NUH to support new consultants.
All consultants are supported for a yearly appraisal and 5 yearly revalidation.
This service provided by HCOP Specialty is provided across both campuses, but your primary base is QMC.
The proposed Job Plan is detailed in this job description, however please see details below:
TIMETABLE
DCC – 8
SPA – 2
Speciality on call weekends – approximately 1 in 6
Speciality telephone on call – approximately 1 in 25
Acute medicine OOH on call shift – approximately 1 in 30 (0.4 PA)
11 AMRA shifts per year 1700-2200 (0.4 PA)
Person specification
Professional Registration
* Full GMC registration
* Eligible to be included on the Specialist Register
* CCT expected within 6 months of interview date OR if CESR, confirmation from the relevant Royal College that you will be entered onto the SR
Professional Qualifications/Development
* MRCP (UK) or equivalent
* MBBS or equivalent
* Higher professional degree
Clinical Skills/Experience
* Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, their families and other health professionals.
* Experience in Geriatric Medicine
* Specific training in communication skills
* Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
Management Skills
* Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.
* Able to work in a team.
* Higher management degree or qualification or training
* Experience of change management
Personal Skills/Qualities
* Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
Teaching, Audit & Research
* Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
* Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.
* Original Research Publications
* Higher teaching degree or qualification or training
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