Orthogeriatric Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Orthogeriatric Specialist to join our team at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. As a Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, you will be responsible for providing high-quality care to patients with complex geriatric needs, including those with fractures and other orthopaedic conditions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct input to patients admitted under the fractured femur pathway, patients admitted with peri-prosthetic fractures, and frail patients admitted with other orthopaedic issues.
• Improve pre-operative optimisation, lead the perioperative medical management of fractured-femur and peri-prosthetic fracture patients, and coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.
• Provide oversight and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team and contribute towards teaching.
• Participate in daily trauma meetings, weekly handover meetings, and monthly fracture femur pathway meetings.
• Participate in and attend monthly audit and clinical governance meetings.
• Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintenance of continuing professional development.

Person Specification

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practice
• MBBS or Equivalent
• Speciality Certificate Exam in Geriatrics (RCP)
• Supervisor qualifications (educational supervisor from RCP)
• Postgraduate membership with at least 2 years post-membership experience
• Experience in geriatrics, at least 1 year, and orthogeriatrics, at least 1 year

About Us

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. We pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drive the Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit, and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under-represented groups to support the Trust's commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply with the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.