Consultant Physician Care of the Elderly

Integrated Care System; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative and enthusiastic Consultant Physician is sought to join a dynamic team at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The role focuses on the Care of the Elderly, delivering high-quality patient care, training, and supporting the development of specialized services for older patients. The successful candidate will play a crucial part in shaping care delivery through multidisciplinary collaboration and mentoring.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Possession of clinical skills in elderly care and internal medicine.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships.
• Experience managing a broad GIM caseload.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of Care of the Elderly services.
• Deliver daily inpatient ward rounds and outpatient clinics.
• Participate in teaching and clinical supervision of trainees.

Skills

Elderly care

General internal medicine

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Leadership

Education

MRCP or equivalent

Full GMC registration

Job description

Consultant Physician Care of the Elderly

Doyou want to deliver excellent patient care, enjoy working collaboratively withsystem partners, and help shape and deliver services that will benefit yourpatients in years to come? Do you enjoy delivering training and education?

Weare looking for an innovative, enthusiastic, and patient centred Consultant Geriatrician to join our team in the Care for OlderPeople at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

We are a friendly, dynamic and diverseteam of experienced clinicians who will provide mentoring and support tailoredto your specialist interests, and who recognise the importance of a goodwork-life balance.

We have a long tradition in multi-professionaltraining and education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as guidingcandidates through a successful CESR application.

We are actively involved in caretransformation for older people of Barnsley at Integrated Care Board level throughthe development of a Frailty Virtual Ward, Frailty SDEC, and Integrated Carewith community colleagues, as well as service development and delivery inhospital inpatient and outpatient settings.

Interested?

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for the developmentof Care of the Elderly services along with their colleagues and is expected to deliver adaily inpatient ward round as well as outpatient clinics and timetabledsessions on Frailty SDEC.

They also expected to have a strong commitment to participating inteaching and clinical supervision of medical students and trainees, contributingto the training of nurses and other staff and participating in the activitiesof the Postgraduate Medical Centre including Medical and Clinical Audit.

The candidate will have allocated 1.5 PA for Core SPA time and 1 PAto pursue specialist interest.

Thispost will help to continue to facilitate the progression of Care of the Elderlyservices. It is an exciting time to be joining our team we are ambitious tofurther develop the model of care for frail elderly patients including ourservices in areas such as Stroke, Frailty, Orthogeriatrics and Dementia andwe are keen to support the successful candidate in specialist interest areas.

About us

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close aposition early.

Barnsley HospitalNHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust achieving a Good rating inour most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment and achievingsignificant progress in the delivery of our strategic objectives. We are proudof the commitment of our staff to ensuring a strong and sustainable future forthis organisation which is highly valued by our local communities.

There has neverbeen a better time to join Barnsley Hospital. It is moving at pace and a wecan do this attitude is evident right through the organisation, where staffare engaged for change and committed to being part of the journey tosustainability and growth. This is demonstrated by the excellent results in therecent staff survey.

As an employee ofBarnsley Hospital, you will find that we are committed to the fair treatment ofour staff, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age ordisability. We actively promote equality of opportunity for all, welcomeapplications from a wide range of candidates and select interviewees based ontheir skills, qualifications, and experience.

We take equalopportunities and improving the working lives of our staff really seriously,this could include flexible working, part-time, job share and remote workingfrom home. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss anyflexibility that you may require.

We hope that you will choose to join us.

Job responsibilities

The full job description and person specification for this post can be found under the supporting documents section.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

• Willingness and ability to fulfill the key elements of the job description.
• Possession of the clinical skills required to perform the job including both elderly care and general internal medicine.
• Ability to cope with the demands of a DGH based Consultant.
• Ability to lead and develop the service.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual, multi-professional and team basis with all levels of staff.
• Ability and evidence of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Experience

• Experience in the management of a broad GIM caseload.
• Experience in the management of an Elderly Care Medicine caseload.
• Experience in a specialist interest that will complement those of other staff.

Qualifications

• MRCP or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration and on Specialist Register or within 12 months of specialist registration due to completion of training or within 12 months of specialist registration due to application via CESR with the submission completed at time of application for post

Teaching and Management

• Evidence of effective teaching to medical students and doctors in training and to the multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of formal management 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.