Consultant - Older Persons Medicine and Frailty

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

Job summary

A healthcare trust in England is seeking a Consultant in Older Persons Medicine and Frailty. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality clinical care, support discharge planning, and engage in educational activities. Candidates should have significant experience in medical specialties and be eligible for GMC registration. This role offers competitive remuneration and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in relevant medical specialties.
• Awareness of legal responsibilities (safeguarding, mental capacity act, data protection).
• If applying for consultant post, CCT or CESR in geriatric medicine.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care in Acute/General and Older Peoples Medicine.
• Collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Engage in clinical governance and quality improvement.

Skills

Good written and oral communication skills

Ability to independently manage an outpatient clinic

Ability to lead MDT meetings

Demonstrates ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Education

MRCP

Full GMC registration and a license to practice

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Consultant - Older Persons Medicine and Frailty

A new post has been created within the Medicine for Older People team at Wexham Park following a service reconfiguration. The successful candidate will work across the rehabilitation unit, discharge unit, and the acute frailty service, providing high-quality care to our patients.

We actively encouragespecial interests and offer opportunities for professional development. If dual-accredited, the post holder will also participate in the General Internal Medicine (GIM) on-call rota. Flexible working requests for less than 10 PAs will be considered.

We welcome applications from doctors with significant experience(12+ years) who do not currently hold CCT. Such candidates may be appointed as Specialist Grade on the relevant pay scale and supported to progress to Consultant level via the CESR (portfolio pathway).

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to work alongside our existing consultants to further develop services for older people and bring their own special interests to enhance our current offerings. This role is ideal for those seeking to join an organisation that is leading the way in delivering truly integrated care.

For dual-accredited candidates, the General Medicine on-call rota is approximately 1:9 weekends, with a less frequent midweek commitment.

• Weekdays (08:00-17:00): Acute admissions are covered by Acute Medicine consultants.
• Out of hours (nights and weekends): The on-call consultant physician covers both acute admissions and the wider General Medicine service.

On-call duties attract a 1 PA supplement and one day TOIL for weekend work.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Job responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality clinical care in Acute/General and Older Peoples Medicine.
• Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Liaise with Social Services, GPs, and voluntary organisations.
• Provide specialist advice to colleagues and support staff.
• Contribute to teaching, training, and supervision of junior doctors and other healthcare professionals.
• Participate in audits, quality improvement, and service development.
• Engage in clinical governance and morbidity & mortality meetings.
• Support divisional leadership with service planning and development.
• Comply with Trust policies and complete mandatory training, appraisal, and revalidation.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MRCP
• 10 years experience in relevant medical specialties
• Full GMC registration and a license to practice
• Awareness of legal responsibilities eg safeguarding, mental capacity act, deprivation of liberty, data protection, equality and diversity
• If applying for consultant post, CCT or CESR in geriatric medicine or within 6 months of expected CCT date.

Experience

• Able to undertake comprehensive geriatric assessment.
• Able to independently manage an outpatient clinic
• Ability to lead MDT meeting and experience of effective discharge planning.
• Previous experience in delivering interprofessional and post graduate teaching
• Understand principles and participated in audit activity and quality improvement
• Understand the principles of Clinical Governance and demonstrate experience of evidence based practice
• Able to deal with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients.
• To have completed a teaching or educational supervisors course
• Previous participation in MRCP &/or student teaching
• Subspecialty experience eg movement disorders, rehabilitation, acute frailty

Skills & Knowledge

• Practises with the professional behaviours and values expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice
• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrate appropriate leadership behaviour, including the ability to organise and develop service provision
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams.
• Ability to be proactive
• Demonstrate being a role model and effective team member
• Computer literate - confident in using MS Office, Email and Internet
• Leadership training

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 a yearPer annum, pro rata