Consultant Elderly Care Physician, Acute Frailty - Conquest
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area: Consultant Geriatrician / Frailty
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs)
Job ref: 374-CQ-AM500-S
Site: Conquest Hospital
Town: Hastings
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality hospital and community care to over half a million people living in East Sussex and those who visit our local area.
East Sussex Healthcare NHS trust is seeking a vibrant and enthusiastic individual to join our Elderly Care team. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the expansion of the Acute Frailty Service. Following a significant investment to expand our Acute Frailty Services on both acute hospital sites, we are appointing a new consultant to provide specialist care to older people living with frailty, referred to our Elderly Care team of 11 consultants across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will work with consultant colleagues and the Acute Frailty Team to provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services for local residents. The individual appointee will be based at Conquest Hospital, but this may be subject to change depending on service need.
Individual appointees should have been fully trained and accredited in all aspects of Elderly Care, with special interests in Frailty and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, which will complement the other two Consultant members of the Service and support the continuing development of Frailty in East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
All applicants must have a full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Hold medical qualification or qualification registered with GMC
* Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e. MRCP/MRCS or equivalent
* Hold Specialist Registration or be within 6 months of CCT date
* MD or equivalent higher degree or evidence of relevant research
Clinical Experience
* High standard of clinical skill and expertise in the specialty
* Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on-call rota for the specialty
* Comprehensive clinical experience in general medicine and geriatric medicine
* Good working knowledge of the theory and practice of Geriatric Medicine
* Good all-round experience in General Internal Medicine/Care of the Elderly and/or other Medicine Specialties
* Special interest and expertise in subspecialty of geriatrics
Management & Admin Experience
* Audit/Research
* Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT/CCST
* Supervision of post graduate trainees
* Personal time management skills
* Clinical Governance
* Ability to organise outpatient waiting lists
* Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development
Teaching Experience
* Experience of undergraduate and post graduate teaching
* Ability to teach clinical skills
* Experience of supervising junior doctors
* Experience of teaching Lay groups and other staff groups
* Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Research Experience
* Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
* Ability to critically review research
* Publications in peer review journals
Language
* Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Personal Attributes
* Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
* Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement
* Good interpersonal skills
* Ability to communicate with patients and relatives
* Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities to local, regional and national levels
* Commitment to continuing professional development
* Able to make own arrangements for travel between working sites
* Commitment to specialty development
Patients come first at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Our vision is to be:
* The healthcare provider of first choice for the people of East Sussex.
Our mission is to:
* Deliver better health outcomes and an excellent experience for everyone we provide with healthcare services.
Our strategic objectives are to:
* Improve quality and clinical outcomes by ensuring that safe patient care is our highest priority.
* Play a leading role in local partnerships to meet the needs of our local population and improve and enhance patients’ experiences.
* Use our resources efficiently and effectively for the benefit of our patients and their care to ensure our services are clinically, operationally and financially sustainable.
Our aims are that all services delivered by the Trust are:
* Safe
* Effective
* Caring
* Responsive
* Well led
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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