Consultant Geriatrician

Consultant

**Main area**
- HCOP
- **Grade**
- Consultant
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- **Job ref**
- 164-4340558-A**Site**
- Queen's Medical Centre
- **Town**
- Nottingham
- **Salary**
- £88,364 - £119,133 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 01/06/2023 23:59Job overview

Applications are invited for Consultants within Geriatrics.

Applications may be considered for applicants requesting full or part-time.

The post-holder will join an enthusiastic and welcoming team of Geriatrician Consultants, in a dynamic and innovative department.

The specialty of Health Care of the Older Person (HCOP) sits managerially within the Division of Medicine alongside Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Respiratory Medicine, Stroke Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. The Division of Medicine is split into 3 directorates. HCOP sits within the Integrated Care Directorate with Stroke.

NUH is a Centre of Excellence in the clinical care, teaching and research of Health Care of Older People. We have developed a broad range of subspecialties to meet patient need across the health community and our aim is to ensure that this continues.

The service has the ambition to enable Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for all older people with frailty that might benefit within Nottinghamshire. This ambition has seen an increase in consultant geriatrician numbers over the last five to ten years, providing opportunities to develop new and innovative models of service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Working in the HCOP specialty the post-holders will be responsible for:

- Share consultant responsibility on 1 of our 8 acute/subacute HCOP wards, improve our commitment to frail older people within the acute medical and frailty pathway
- Cover of our HCOP Frailty admissions unit, D57
- In-reach into acute admission areas

Working for our organisation

We're based in the heart of Nottingham and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and its surrounding communities. We also provide specialist services for a further 3-4 million people from across the region.

We're one of the largest employers in the region, employing around 15,000 people at QMC, Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.
- QMC is where our Emergency Department (A&E), Major Trauma Centre and the Nottingham Children’s Hospital are based. QMC is also home to the University of Nottingham’s School of Nursing and Medical School
- Nottingham City Hospital is our planned care site, where our cancer centre, heart centre and stroke services are based
- Ropewalk House is where we provide a range of outpatient services, including hearing services

We have 90 wards and around 1,700 beds.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The appointees will be expected to fulfil the following duties with the agreed Job Plan.
Clinical - A full range of HCOP emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under his/her care.

Person specification

Professional Registration

Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- Experience working in UK as full time consultant geriatrician
- CCT expected within 6 months of interview date
- Eligable to be included on the Specialist Register

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
- MRCP

Desirable criteria
- Higher Professional Degree

Clinical Skills/Experience

Essential criteria
- Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
- Demonstrable broad experience of acute medicine
- Demonstrable broad training in the full range of HCOP specialities including rehabilitation
- Demonstrate a special interest in acute geriatric medicine within the acute medicine pathway

Desirable criteria
- Specific training in communication skills
- Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors

Management Skills

Essential criteria
- Able to work in a team.
- Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.
- Evidence of management training

Desirable criteria
- Higher management degree or qualification or training
- Experience of change management
- Demonstrate engagement and delivery of service development.
- Demonstrate special interest, expertise and effectiveness in an area of management eg governance, service delivery

Personal Skills/Qualities

Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly in a changing health service

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
- Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.

Desirable criteria
- Original Research Publications
- Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Practical Requirements

Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between City Hospital Campus and Queen’s Medical Centre campus
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