Locum Consultant Geriatrician

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.

Here at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital our speciality has grown substantially in recent years due to the development of one of the largest fractured neck of femur service in Europe, a comprehensive Older Person Assessment and Liaison (OPAL) service providing vital front door care and a Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) service.

The speciality wishes to recruit additional and dynamic Consultant Geriatricians at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to support our exciting and forward-thinking team. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with an interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatrics and surgical liaison), movement disorders and acute geriatrics. Further description of the specific services and areas for development are detailed below.

Heartlands Hospital are committed to supporting staff wellbeing, so although the posts are 10 programmed activities, working less than full time can be accommodated.

Main duties of the job

Job plan:PAs for direct patient care & SPAs to support revalidation activities including CPD & educational supervision/ possess MRCP or equivalent; be on the Specialist Register in Geriatric & General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & General Medicine.Applicants must be entered onto the GMC register.

Contact Dr Tarunya Vedutla (CSL) or Dr Claire Roberston (CDG Director)

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Care

Care of inpatients

Administrative duties related to patient care

Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.

Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.

Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.

Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues' periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy.

To help the department and Trust in emergencies.

Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty.

Please note for more information about this opportunity please see attached detailed job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview.

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