Locum Consultant/liaison Geriatrician

2 weeks ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a senior grade** **doctor with experience in geriatric medicine to provide in-patient liaison cover within the general and colorectal surgical department at The Royal Oldham Hospital, for a fixed term contract of 1 year.

**The Royal Oldham Hospital and surgical department**:
The Royal Oldham Hospital (TROH) is a busy acute district general hospital containing 640 beds.

The surgical department consists of 8 consultant colorectal surgeons and 6 general surgeons who provide both elective and emergency care to the North East sector of Manchester, covering TROH as well as Fairfield, Rochdale, and North Manchester hospitals. There is also a team of 7 cancer specialist nurses who support specifically with cancer care patients.

The inpatient bed-base at TROH consists of a small surgical triage unit (F5), a surgical assessment unit (F6), a specialist colorectal surgery/general surgery ward (T5), and an elective intake ward (T6).

**Main duties of the job**:
**Main role duties**:

- Inpatient assessment and care of older adults admitted acutely under the surgical team, with particular focus on those with frailty, multiple co-morbidities, and acute medical issues
- Communicating with relatives and loved ones
- Support of junior doctors on the surgical wards with acute medical issues
- Cross-cover with liaison geriatricians in the vascular and orthopaedic departments

**Working for our organisation**:
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.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- CCT in Geriatrics or equivalent experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of surgical liaison

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Previous skills through delivery of general medicine on-call at consultant level

**Desirable criteria**:

- Specialist geriatrics skills

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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