Senior Perioperative Geriatric Clinician for Older Adults

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a six-month fixed-term clinician to join the Perioperative Care of Older People team within the Surgical Directorate. In this role you will assess frailty, delirium and risk, plan preoperative care and discharge with surgeons, anaesthetists and geriatricians, under senior supervision.

You will develop individualised management plans, educate colleagues, and contribute to audits and service development, maintaining a defined

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification is required.
• Level 6 or equivalent ECP experience.
• Current registration with relevant professional body.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive clinical and frailty assessments of older surgical patients and identify opportunities for optimisation and risk reduction.
• Contribute to preoperative assessment, shared decision-making and perioperative planning for patients with complex medical and geriatric needs.
• Provide senior clinical input into frailty, delirium, falls, polypharmacy and functional decline.
• Develop and implement individualised management and discharge plans with the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Provide continuity of specialist POPS input through the surgical admission where appropriate.
• Support education, supervision and professional development of nursing, medical and allied health colleagues.
• Contribute to POPS audit, quality improvement, service development and evidence-based practice.
• Manage a defined patient caseload autonomously within scope, with senior supervision, and maintain associated records.
• Act as a source of expertise for older surgical patients, their carers and families.
• Contribute to patient and carer education for individuals and groups, including surgical older persons education programmes.
• Identify future requirements to sustain reduced length of stay using quantitative and qualitative data.
• Advise on and prescribe for older frail surgical patients where in scope and holding the relevant qualification, under national guidelines and Trust policy.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Frailty management

Delirium knowledge

Risk assessment

Leadership

Communication

Autonomous working

Education

Degree-level qualification

Level 6 ECP experience

Registration with professional body

Job description

The University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a six-month fixed-term clinician to join the Perioperative Care of Older People team within the Surgical Directorate. In this role you will assess frailty, delirium and risk, plan preoperative care and discharge with surgeons, anaesthetists and geriatricians, under senior supervision.

You will develop individualised management plans, educate colleagues, and contribute to audits and service development, maintaining a defined