Consultant in Older Peoples Services *Welcome Bonus 12K*

Esneft; Colchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks two Consultants in Older Peoples Services for Colchester Hospital. The role will involve providing high-standard care to elderly patients, participating in service development, and supporting junior medical staff. Candidates should be experienced in Geriatric Medicine and able to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams.

Benefits

Welcome Bonus of £12,000

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered with GMC and full license to practice.
• Experience in geriatrics and acute care settings.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care for elderly patients.
• Develop care pathways and clinical guidelines.
• Lead educational support for junior staff.

Skills

Geriatric Medicine

Clinical Supervision

Teaching

Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

Education

Medical Degree

Specialty Training in Geriatric Medicine

Job description

Consultant in Older Peoples Services *Welcome Bonus 12K*

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The Trust is looking to recruit two Consultants in Geriatric Medicine, based at Colchester Hospital, to join the existing Consultant workforce.

It is expected that the new appointee will participate in the development of Older Peoples Services and the provision of care to elderly patients. Other subspecialty interests are also welcome including movement disorders and parkinsons disease, acute frailty service, community interface and orthogeriatrics. The key elements of the role include inpatient care, frailty work, outpatient clinics, acute medical on call as well as teaching and training junior medical staff.

Our frailty service is provided by “community at the front door”, in reaching to the emergency department. The Frailty service is predominantly outpatient based service for provision of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of frail elderly patient. The Frailty Service is staffed by a nurse consultant, middle grade Dr, GP trainee, nurse practitioners, senior nurse, Occupational therapist, Physiotherapist, Pharmacist and healthcare assistant.

The post is full time (10 PAs). The job plan will be divided into direct clinical care (DCC) 8.5 PA and supporting professional activities (SPA) 1.5 PA. Of the 1.5 SPA, 1 is allocated for revalidation, with the additional 0.5 PA for additional activities, such as clinical and educational supervision.

The on call acute medical commitment equates to an additional 1 PA. The frequency of on call in 1 in 8.5 weekends.

The Post-holder Will

• Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care;
• Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines;
• Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the Emergency Department (ED);
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care;
• Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team;
• Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility;
• Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained;
• Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated;
• Ensure that junior doctors training confirms to College requirements; and
• Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trust’s agree policy
  
  

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.

We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years

We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.

We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.

At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Ajith Pillai Job title: Consultant Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01206 742533

Requests for visits to the unit should be made to Dr A Pillai on 01206 742533 or 07853231255

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