Consultant Gerontologist-Special interest in POPS

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Orpington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Consultant to enhance care for frail, older patients. The role involves working within a multi-disciplinary team, providing high-quality healthcare, and developing peri-operative services. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in Gerontology and General Medicine, alongside leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Wide experience in Gerontology and General Medicine.
• Experience in day-to-day organisation of Gerontology services.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care service to patients.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments.
• Contribute to the Care Groups research interests.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Research

Audit

Education

Registerable medical qualification

Full MRCP

Tools

Information Technology

Job description

This is a new Consultant post. The remit of the post holder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for frail, older patients from Gerontology services, and to provide and develop peri-operative medicine services to the Trust's older patients undergoing surgery.

Main duties of the job

The post will be predominantly based at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH). The proposed Job Plan comprises of 10 core PAS (8.5 DCC/1.5 SPA), This role will support an additional (optional) 1 PA for service development to implement a much-needed peri-operative optimisation of older patients service starting with one surgical speciality and progressing to others over time. This is service development, not a discrete project of work. A further 0.5 APA option for undergraduate education as year 2 block lead is also available.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust's sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

1. Brilliant People

2. Outstanding care

3. Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education

4. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

At King's, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.

Job description
Job responsibilities

1. Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.

2. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.

3. Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitionersas a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.

4. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.

5. Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Groups management team where part of the service structure.

6. Contribute to the Care Groups research interests in accordance with the Trusts R& D framework.

7. Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.

8. Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Groups Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.

9. Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).

1. Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.

2. Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues

3. Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.

4. Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.

5. Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.

6. Kings is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Higher Education
Essential

• Registerable medical qualification
• Full MRCP

Desirable

• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)

Registration
Essential

• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

Interview Eligibility
Essential

• On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT, in final stages of their portfolio pathway application, or be fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered

Training and Experience
Essential

• Wide experience in all aspects of Gerontology and General (Internal) Medicine culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC

Administration
Essential

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of Gerontology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership
Essential

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable

• Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement
Essential

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
• Must have undertaken and completed audit projects

Desirable

• Audit Publications

Research and Publications
Essential

• Experience of clinical research.
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.

Desirable

• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Gerontology

Teaching
Essential

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.

Desirable

• Teaching skills course/qualification

Job specific criteria
Essential

• Evidence of clinical experience in management of complex older patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery

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