Consultant Geriatrician

Consultant Geriatrician within geriatric medicine,

To provide clinical leadership, diagnosis, management and treatment for patients with a broad spectrum of complex geriatric care needs; act as an expert resource for medical, nursing and other health care professionals across the Trust footprint; and be an active champion of high quality frailty and older persons care both locally and across the region.

The post holder will complement and develop existing services through the provision of specialist knowledge & expertise in older person services. The post holder is therefore required to have full registration with the General Medical Council & a valid licence to practice and be on the specialist register for Geriatric Medicine (CESR) or be within 6 months of CCT or equivalent at the time of interview.

The Department

The emergency department at The Royal Oldham Hospital currently provides care for approximately 120,000 attendances per year. Of these attendances the over 65-75’s and over 75’s age groups account for 7562 and 12000 attendances respectively.

The Trust is committed to an on-going process of improving the way services for older people are provided. Since older people have specific healthcare needs, methods of delivering care should be tailored to meet these. It is recognised that the development of these services is best lead by specialist clinicians and this responsibility comprises a key aspect of this job.
- The post holder will continue to provide established inpatient care for older people as well as work towards the development of new and innovative geriatric services.
- They will be encouraged to contribute their own vision for service improvement and how best they can work with the trust to help deliver this.
- Equally as important is the expansion of effective and appropriate community services, working as part of the team to provide joined up needs-based care for older people is a key part of this role.
- The trust is currently working towards a sustainable virtual ward model across several specialties, of which frailty is one, - you will be expected to identify suitable patients, devise robust management plans and liaise with the dedicated frailty team to make the frailty virtual ward a success.
- You will help lead a motivated team to ensure that the best standard of care is provided to older people within the trust including a commitment to the development of specialist needs based services across a range of interfaces

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.