GERIATRIC MEDICINE COMMUNITY SPECIALTY DOCTOR
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
GERIATRIC MEDICINE COMMUNITY BASED INPATIENT ELDERLY / INTERMEDIATE CARE SPECIALTY DOCTOR (BILLERICAY - ESSEX)
Contract: Substantive
Location: Mountnessing Court Inpatient Unit, 240 Mountnessing Road, Billericay, Essex, CM12 0EH.
Qualifications needed:
* Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
* Experience in the management of a broad range of physical disorders in older adults, including end-of-life care.
* At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
Main duties of the job
To be successful in your application, you will need:
* To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT's values.
* To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about elderly physical health care.
* Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care.
* To be a team player.
Job responsibilities
You will be expected to:
* Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to older adult people with physical health needs, within a community based inpatient setting.
* Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases.
* Provide guidance and supervision to the team.
* Work directly with older adult people and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external older adult health providers, and acute hospitals.
* Work alongside 2wte Consultant Geriatrician and 0.4wte Specialty Doctor within the service and share clinical supervision requirements for the team.
* Develop links already established with the local acute trusts A&E departments and inpatient wards.
* Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
* Support your peers and the team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
* Supervise junior colleagues and liaise with other health and social professionals and agencies.
Person Specification
GMC
* Full GMC Registration with a license to practice
Knowledge
* Experience in the management of a broad range of physical disorders in older adults, including end-of-life care.
Experience
* At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £59,175 to £95,400 a year per annum pro rata
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