Consultant Geriatrician

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Blaenau Gwent Community Resource Team in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board as a Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Intermediate Care. This is a permanent position and will be community based.

As a key member of the Community Resource Team, the Consultant will be responsible for leading and developing our Rapid Response service and for ensuring that the highest standards of care are delivered to patients in their own homes.

The team has a positive reputation for providing responsive, high quality care and comprehensive geriatric assessments for older people, which are consultant led. We have outstanding services led by our Doctor, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners and Support Workers who constitute our rapid response, discharge to assess, falls and reablement teams.

This is an exciting post designed to improve patient experience through providing care locally as part of our Clinical Futures and Care Closer to Home Strategies. The post holder will be joining a passionate and dedicated team with a strong ethos for delivering community based care to frail elderly patients in partnership with Blaenau Gwent Local Authority Social Services, Primary Care Neighbourhood Care Networks, Community Hospital and other local organisations.

Free parking is available across all Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Sites.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

This position involves Regulated Activity with children and/or adults as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) and the following checks will be undertaken following any conditional offer:

- Enhanced check with barred list information, including an adults barred list check

Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC