Consultant in Elderly Medicine

4 weeks ago


Bradford, United Kingdom Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post holder will participate in a 1 in 9 acute on call rota, category A, covering the Elderly Care wards (wards 3, 29, 31 F5 and F6), and responding to community based calls as required. The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the usual clinical activities of the department which will include outpatient clinics, MDT attendance and participating in the ward Consultant rota. The consultant will provide continuing responsibility for patients in their clinics and in partnership with colleagues. The post holder will develop services aimed at avoiding readmissions to hospital, through active follow up of high risk patients on discharge from hospital to avoid repeated acute admissions where possible.

In addition the post holder would be expected to take on significant responsibility in the supporting activities for the department within areas of clinical governance taking into account any areas of interest and consultant colleagues current commitments. This includes participation in the departments service development, clinical governance, MDT review, clinical trials, mortality and business meetings. The department is linked to the Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, established with joint funding by the foundation trust and Bradford University. Our research mixes methods approaches to investigate service outcomes for older people, including patients with stroke, in both secondary (hospital) and primary care.

Our current funding includes Medical Research Council (MRC) clinical trials grant and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) programme grant. Please see attached job description for full details of duties and responsibilities.



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