Consultant Geriatrician, Interest in Peri-Operative Medicine

This post stands within our recently expanded department. The post-holder will allow us to continue to deliver a seven-day acute frailty service and a seven-day consultant-delivered service on our inpatient wards, as well as supporting an expanded GIM consultant body to support an enhanced support to the acute medical take. Specifically with this role we are looking to maintain our Surgical Liaison Service (also known as PROKARE).

The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the General Unselected Medical Take, weekend Frailty and Gerontology support, as well as the out-of-hours Gerontology telephone on-call rota. See the JD&PS for further information or contact the department leads.

Outpatient activity supports the inpatient activity through targeted follow-up and contributes to the admission avoidance rapid access HOT clinics provided by the departments Consultant Connect service (descriptions of these services can be found below). The post-holder may have a clinic commitment in part of their job plan on taking up the post or in the future.

The post-holder would be expected to play a significant role in service re-design and previous experience of introducing and effecting change and quality improvement is highly desirable. Candidates should be able to provide clinical steer to develop new clinical pathways and should be committed to embedding service and cultural change. It is envisaged that as the result of this activity and other work within the department, consultants will work increasingly across traditional boundaries between primary and secondary care as well as supporting community services and GPs.

In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department with a commitment to teaching, training of junior staff, departmental efficiency, and research. There would be an opportunity for individuals with an academic track record to be accommodated within the department for this position as the department looks to expand its research portfolio in the coming years.