Consultant Geriatrician

We are looking for enthusiastic and talented consultants to join our team to develop and deliver excellent care to our local population. We encourage prospective consultants to develop their own areas of specialist interest to align with the vision for our organization.

These are substantive consultant posts, which will be based at Stepping hill Hospital and also work in the community helping to support the management of frail patients in their usual place of living.

The applicant should hold or within 6 months of achieving a CCT in General and Geriatric Medicine.

The post holders will be supported and responsible for supervision of junior/middle grade medical staff. The successful post holder will be supported to undertake formal training in educational supervision.

The post holders will build on the existing good relationships with primary and community care services so that frail, older people have risk factors identified and can be signposted to services that will support them, to maintain their independence as close to home as possible and reduce the incidence of further crisis.

This may include co-ordination of specialist multi-disciplinary meetings which include primary and community care services to ensure that patients have robust care plans which help them to stay healthy at home for as long as possible.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital and community health services for children and adults across Stockport and the High Peak. Stepping Hill Hospital treats over 500,000 patients per year and community health services are run across 24 sites in Stockport.

There are many great reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focussed workforce.

We are constantly improving how we work with staff and this is reflected in the awards we have been awarded, which can be seen on our website.

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There is scope to further your interest in falls prevention, tilt table testing and osteoporosis management.

There is close collaboration with Steady in Stockport, which is a Falls prevention service in the community and Fracture liaison service (FLS).

The hospital has been one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Manchester, following a unanimous decision by the 12 Greater Manchester clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as part of the Healthier Together programme.

It is expected that Geriatricians will be crucial for the support of medical management of patients with complex medical comorbidities.

The post holders will be expected to evolve the community side of the service in conjunction with primary care and community colleagues. The expectation would be the joint management of complex frail older patients in the community with an aim to provide the best quality care outside of a hospital in-patient stay.

If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £43.50.

This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary. In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.