Locum Consultant Physician in Care of the Older Adult

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant within the Care of the Older Adult department. This role focuses on delivering high-quality care for frail older patients, engaging in outpatient clinic work, and collaborating within multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have strong clinical skills, excellent communication abilities, and the desire to develop new services. The positions offer on-call duties in general medicine and opportunities for leadership roles.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering care for frail older patients.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness to develop new services and take leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care for frail older patients.
• Engage in outpatient clinic work and develop hot clinics.
• Maintain enhanced clinical skills for acute assessments.

Skills

Team-working skills

Communication skills

Clinical skills in acute assessment

Job description

Job overview

The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Locum Consultant within the Care of the Older Adult department. These are new posts aimed at expanding the department and developing front door (acute frailty) and short stay ward capabilities across the Trust. Each post attracts 10 Programmed Activities and on-call duties in general medicine.

Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver high quality care for frail older patients under our care on our base or outlying wards and respond to referrals from other specialties.
• Work within the multidisciplinary teams on the acute floor and base wards to ensure care is delivered to patients in the most appropriate environment. Focus on care closer to home and utilise our community partners and services (virtual ward and community hospitals) to reduce hospital associated harm.
• General Medicine / On-Call Duties.
• To maintain enhanced clinical skills, especially in the assessment and management of acutely ill patients.
• To have good team-working skills with the abilities and professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.
• Good written and verbal communication skills within the multidisciplinary team and with patients and their relatives.
• To deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.
• Engagement in outpatient clinic work (including the development of hot clinics).
  Appetite to develop new services (surgical liaison, continence) and take on appropriate leadership roles.
• Open to cross site working.

Working for our organisation

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust’s catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire); Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin); and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) – all beautiful and unique.

Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes’ drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.