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Elderly Care Consultant with Special Interest in Acute Geriatrics
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Dorset County Hospital is currently undergoing expansion with a complete emergency floor redesign and rebuild. This opens an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic geriatrician to join our team and contribute to a bespoke pathway for frail older people admitted to hospital.
We would like to recruit a geriatrician with a passion for excellent care to join our team of consultants, specialist doctors, advance practitioners, nurse consultants and speciality doctors. We are flexible, supportive and inclusive. New consultants are supported with a mentor.
Dorset County Hospital is a 350 bed District General Hospital with a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services.
The successful applicant will participate in the delivery and development of services for older people in our hospital. Their timetable will be tailored to individual skills and subspeciality expertise, but likely to focus on working with existing colleagues in front door frailty.
We provide daily geriatrician led ward rounds on the medical admissions unit, frailty SDEC services, a 38 bed inpatient frailty unit, an acute stroke unit and associated rehabilitation and outpatient stroke services, orthogeriatric and general surgical liaison services, Parkinson’s disease service.
We have close links with colleagues working in our local community hospitals with some colleagues working across the two areas providing some sessions for inpatient care in these hospitals. Our multidisciplinary department is working together towards becoming Dorset County Hospital’s Centre of Excellence for the Care of Older People.”
At DCHFT, we pride ourselves on the care we provide for our patients, and on the culture, we are creating for our staff. We work hard to create a fair, inclusive environment for our staff.
Our Mission is to work in partnership to provide high quality, compassionate services and to nurture an environment where people can be at their best. Our vision is healthier lives, empowered citizens, thriving communities.
This post is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic consultant to participate in the development of services in a friendly district general hospital situated in a beautiful part of England. This post will be within the Department of Medicine for Older People (DMOP). The successful applicant will join senior medical staff in Medicine for Older People and Stroke, working to improve the care of emergency medical admissions and frail older people. The Trust has in recent years worked with the Acute Frailty Network to develop a dynamic and progressive approach to the management of frail older people.
We have developed a fully integrated acute frailty unit in the acute medical unit which provides daily weekday geriatrician ward rounds and MDT review. A Frailty SDEC service provides rapid access appointments, medical falls reviews and direct reviews of suitable ED patients. Geriatricians also provide ward rounds in community hospitals in West Dorset and input to locality virtual wards, alongside providing an advice line to local GPs, community frailty teams and paramedics. Together with other members of the team, this appointment will facilitate the ongoing development of the Trust’s frailty pathway, both within and outside the hospital’s walls, in collaboration with Dorset HealthCare, our community partner.
The successful applicant will join the team of senior clinicians in Medicine for Older People and Stroke Medicine. While this post has been created primarily to further our front door frailty services, there is potential to provide input to several of our current services, depending on the new post holder’s interests. The job plan can be decided on appointment and can be reviewed and adapted at intervals to meet the strengths of the individual.
The Department of Medicine for Older People includes a 38 bed frailty unit - The Mary Anning Unit - for acute geriatric medical inpatients and including beds and specialism for those inpatients with dementia and requiring complex discharge work; a 23 bed acute and rehabilitation Stroke Unit and various related services. There are 8 dedicated beds in a local community hospital for stroke rehabilitation.
There is an integrated acute frailty unit on the acute medical admissions ward, which flexes bed numbers with demand. Here there is a geriatrician ward round Monday to Friday. This is supported by a multidisciplinary team approach. Our new frailty SDEC opened in February 2025, run by acute practitioners working closely with geriatricians providing timely assessment for frail older patients referred from primary care and other community settings and also drawing suitable patients from the Emergency Department for assessment and facilitation of investigations and early discharge. We have 10 short stay inpatient beds on the frailty unit, under the care of geriatricians.
We have a well established orthogeriatric liaison service for elderly trauma patients and are developing a liaison service for genera
