Consultant Geriatrician

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.

At Birmingham Heartlands Hospital our speciality has grown substantially in recent years due to development of one of the largest fractured neck of femur service in Europe, a comprehensive Older Person Assessment and Liaison (OPAL) service providing vital front door care and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care -FSDEC service. The speciality wishes to recruit additional and dynamic Consultant Geriatricians at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to support our exciting and forward-thinking team. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatric and surgical liaison), movement disorders and acute geriatrics.

Heartlands Hospital are committed to supporting staff wellbeing, so although the posts are 10 programmed activities, working less than full time can be accommodated.

Job plan: PAs for direct patient care and SPAs to support revalidation activities including CPD and educational supervision/teaching. Must possess MRCP or equivalent, be on the Specialist Register in Geriatric and General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric and General Medicine. Applicants must be entered onto the GMC register.

Main duties of the job

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)

Services unique to BHH site include:

The opportunity to join a well established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.

The opportunity to develop a community service within reach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.

Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service, there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.

Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for patients over 70, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.

We have consultant led MDT Fall, MDT Parkinson's, Osteoporosis and general geriatrics clinics.

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