Consultant Geriatrician

Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Acute Frailty Care and Clinical Lecturer

The Department of Medicine for Older People wishes to appoint a Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Acute Frailty Care

The post holder will work alongside other geriatricians to develop innovative 7 day services for older people, both within the hospitals and community.

They will work with colleagues across sites to develop a seamless, equitable service

This role is for a consultant to support acute frailty services and general geriatric ward cover at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen sites.

The successful applicant will be expected to work alongside other geriatric team members to continue to develop and provide an innovative acute frailty service with commitment to continue to improve quality of care for older frail people and provide CGA with the MDT.

The job plan will develop as the service develops supported by the senior leadership team.

The post holder will have sessional work on the general geriatric wards and re-ablement wards where they will work alongside the Geriatrics consultants to deliver comprehensive geriatric assessment to patients requiring in patient care. These sessions will involve responsibility for leading MDT based CGA care on this ward.

The post will be supported by trainees/ junior doctors and Advanced Nurse Practitioners at the Broadgreen and royal Liverpool sites predominantly. The out-patient work will be supported in our MDT geriatric outpatient department with support from nurses and therapy staff. The ratio from new to follow up will be developed as this is a new clinic as previous colleague passed follow ups to other colleagues. Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

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Clinical Lecture/ Teaching Activity

Clinical Lecture/ Teaching Activity