Consultant in Geriatric Medicine

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in Gateshead is seeking a Consultant Geriatrician to enhance elderly care services. This role includes supervising wards, supporting multi-disciplinary teams, and leading quality improvements in Acute Frailty services. The ideal candidate should have GMC registration and experience in geriatric medicine. Competitive salary range is £109,725 to £145,478 per annum.

Qualifications

• Ability to effectively communicate with patients and team members.
• Participation in multi-disciplinary teams is essential.
• Demonstrates clinical governance and is involved in audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to inpatients on Care of the Elderly wards.
• Lead and develop the Acute Frailty service with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Supervise and train resident doctors to maintain high care standards.

Skills

Ability to communicate effectively

Evidence of partaking in multi-disciplinary team work

Meets requirements of GMC Good Medical Practice

Evidence of clinical audit participation

Understanding of Clinical Governance

Education

GMC Registration

MRCP or Equivalent

GMC Speciality Register in Geriatric Medicine or within 6 months of CCT

Job description

We are advertising a Consultant Geriatrician post to join our department.

This post is available to enhance and support the Care of the Elderly wards within the Jubilee Wing and enhance and develop the Care of the Elderly Acute Frailty service. The post will be for 10 programmed activities (PAs) per week with an additional 0.76 PAs available for programmed speciality weekend work. The appointee would support the current Care of the Elderly medicine service and work alongside established Consultant Geriatricians whose interests include Falls and Syncope, Parkinson's disease, Osteoporosis, Rehabilitation & Community geriatrics and Acute Frailty.

Main duties of the job

The advertised post will have a dual focus on providing care to inpatients on one of our Care of the Elderly wards and enhancing and developing our Acute Frailty service. On the wards, the role will involve working closely with the ward multi-disciplinary team, providing supervision and training for resident doctors and ensuring the continuation of high standards of care for older patients at Gateshead.

While working with the Acute Frailty service in A&E, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to lead our dedicated multi-disciplinary team and develop the service through continuous quality improvement cycles and data collection. In addition, there are opportunities for working closely with community teams, the COTE virtual ward and the wider medical staff based on EAU and SDEC.

Development of the Acute Frailty service is driven by our recently updated Trust strategy and the long term goals of the NHS 10 year plan to move hospital care into the community and transform our services from analogue to digital. A candidate with leadership and ambition in these areas would be welcomed.

Opportunities for developing additional areas of interest in areas such as the Frailty Virtual ward or in Outpatient services such as Osteoporosis will be available to the successful candidate. We are looking for applicants who hold an ambition to work in Gateshead Health Foundation Trust for the long term and develop their career with us.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

The appointment will be for 10 programmed activities, 8.5 PAs of Direct Clinical care (DCC) and 1.5 PAs of Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) for revalidation preparation, CPD, teaching, educational supervision and clinical governance. Job plans are subject to annual review as part of the annual appraisal and revalidation process and the amount of allocated SPA time may be adjusted in the future in accordance with the appointees teaching, research and managerial duties.

The proposed job plans are included within the job description, however we are open to reviewing this on the basis of part-time working requests.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GMC Registration
• MRCP or Equivalent
• GMC Speciality Register in Geriatric Medicine or within 6 months of CCT

Skills and Requirements

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Evidence of partaking in multi-disciplinary team work
• Meets requirements of GMC Good Medical Practice
• Evidence of clinical audit participation
• Understanding of Clinical Governance

Experience

• Specialised training within Geriatric Medicine
• Wider experience of General Medicine

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£109,725 to £145,478 per annum