Consultant Geriatrician

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".
Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout our services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities; speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The appointments will allow annualised / blocks of GIM, both ward in-patient working and a weekly outpatient clinic (potentially moving towards a rapid access clinic). The general medical emergency on-call rota frequency will be reduced to 1:11 weekdays. The evening and morning weekday ward rounds are undertaken by the Acute Physicians. Acute and GIM weekend rounds please see job plan for details.
Provision of a comprehensive inpatient medical service.
Undertake a weekly outpatient clinic.
To participate in the 1:11 Consultant on-call rota as agreed with appointee.
Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff.
Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Geriatrics and general medicine via a. CESR or (c) European Community rights.
g MD, PhD, Masters in other subjects (Education leadership).
Should have completed a recognised training programme in General Internal Medicine.
Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, post-graduates and junior medical staff.

Commitment to the development of a high quality cost effective service.

Committed to ongoing professional development.
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.
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