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 issues.

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 to coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.
• Provide oversight and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team and contribute towards the teaching.
• Participate in the daily trauma meetings, weekly handover meeting and monthly fracture femur pathway meeting.
• Participate and attend the 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.

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 drives the Trust and is 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.