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.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

**Benefits we offer to you**:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

NHS Staff discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

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 £41.50. 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.