The Older Peoples Medicine, Frailty and Palliative directorate, like most other Units in the Trust, works as a single unit and includes elderly medicine, acute frailty, palliative care and community services (Frimley site). The post holder will be required to work within the Older Peoples Medicine department, providing care to inpatients across our 5 wards during the course of their employment. Our core Older Peoples Medicine Unit comprises wards 7, 8 and the Acute Frailty Unit with a bed base of 78. We have 2 additional wards, ward 17 and ward 20, giving an additional 28 and 24 beds respectively.
Each ward has a dedicated consultant(s). We offer one face to face general Care of the Elderly clinic each week, with additional ward follow up telephone clinics. The majority of subspecialty clinics such as falls and movement disorders are provided in the community by Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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· The appointee is responsible to the Consultants for the execution of his/her professional duties and for the supervision of the junior staff in the departments.
· Daily Consultant led board rounds.
· He/she will be responsible for the routine day to day care of inpatients on the Older Peoples Medicine wards.
· He/she will arrange to be on duty for emergencies in accordance with the appropriate rota.
· He/she will carry out daily ward rounds to assess progress of patients and ensure that all treatments ordered are carried out and attend rounds with Consultants.
· He/she is to ensure that adequate patient notes are kept and correspondence is undertaken punctually at all times.
· He/she will make him/herself available to confer with patient's relatives, if required.
· In carrying out his/her duties, the appointee will at all times be responsible for keeping the Consultants informed of serious cases on the Ward, cases of death and any other matter which it is deemed necessary that their attention should be drawn to. Any cases in which he/she has doubts must be referred to the Consultant.
· During his/her appointment, the appointee will at all times be expected to carry out such duties as assigned to him/her by the Consultant staff of the department and perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
· It is the responsibility of the appointee to carry out tuition and training and supervision of the F1s (House officers) within the department and give occasional lectures to nursing staff as required.
· He/she should report to his/her Consultant any deviation from good health he/she may observe in any member of the junior medical staff.
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