Consultant Geriatrician
1 month ago
Job summary
A Consultant Geriatrician is required for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), part of University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older adults, leading on the care of older adults across both hospital and community settings. The speciality wishes to recruit additional consultants: these are a combination of new and replacement posts. We welcome and can accommodate all sub-specialty interests and working less than full time can be accommodated. We provide front door frailty provision and comprehensive geriatric assessment to our local population.
The services offered at QEHB include:
*Inpatient care on Healthcare for Older People (HCOP) wards.
*Older People Assessment & Liaison (OPAL) - front door frailty
*Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)
*Peri-operative medicine including ortho-geriatrics, major trauma service, peri-operative care of older people undergoing surgery (POPS) and onco-geriatrics.
*Sub-specialty clinics including movement disorders, frailty, falls and bone health.
*Academic geriatric medicine with established links to the University of Birmingham.
*Frailty virtual wards.
*Community geriatrics including in-reach services to the local community hubs.
Further description of the specific services and priorities for the site can be discussed with the Clinical Service Lead Dr Clare Hughes ().
Main duties of the job
Prerequisite:
*Must be entered onto the GMC register.
*Must possess MRCP or equivalent.
*Must be on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & Internal Medicine
Key Clinical Responsibilities:
*Care of patients and administrative duties related to patient care.
*Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity.
*Regular participation in speciality and multidisciplinary meetings.
*Regular participation in quality improvement, audit, and research.
*Provision of cover for consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with Trust policy.
*Evening, weekend and bank holiday on-call commitments for specialty and internal medicine.
*Support of the speciality and wider hospital in emergencies
Indicative job plan*:
*Training and experience in Geriatric and Internal Medicine in an accredited training programme.
*Excellent communication skills
*Team management skills
*Ability to work in a multi-professional team.
*Enthusiasm to contribute, develop and lead service development.
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
The post is 10 programmed activities, but working less than full time can be accommodated. The job plan will be tailored to a candidate's specialist interest, with opportunities available across acute and community settings.
PA Direct Clinical Care:
*7-day senior-led patient care
*Subspecialty work and associated administration
*Prospective cover for colleagues leave
*Up to 1PA for acute unselected medical take.
PA Supporting Professional Activity:
*CME/ CPD/ appraisal/ revalidation
*Clinical governance/ Quality improvement
*Service development
*Teaching
*Educational supervision
*A detailed job plan will be agreed with the post holder on appointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
*Entered onto the GMC register. *Possess MRCP or equivalent. *CCT in Geriatric and General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & General Medicine.We have other current jobs related to this field that you can find below
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