Elderly Care Consultant - Medicine

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust are seeking to appoint an Elderly Care Consultant in Geriatric Medicine to support the acute elderly services. The posts will be working for 10 Programmed Activities (PA) per week with an additional PA available (subject to negotiation). The postholders will join a team of Elderly Care consultants to provide high quality patient care and support surgical patients who are undergoing emergency laparotomy. The postholder will have the opportunity to lead the development of POP services and improve the quality of care for patients presenting with emergency laparotomy surgery.

The postholder will participate in a 1 in 18 on-call consultant rota for General Medicine during weekdays and weekends (1 PA per week will be remunerated). The weekend commitment includes morning and evening ward rounds in conjunction with an AMU Consultant covering all patients admitted to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU). There will be a requirement for 1 in 4 Saturday ward cover from 09:00 - 13:00. there is a requirement to review surgical patients on demand (0.75 PA) for this 1 in 4 Saturdays. In addition, there is a negotiable option of 1 in 6 weekend ward cover on Ward 29 09:00 - 15:00. (short stay ward) to cover do ward round on Saturday and Sunday., The main duties are of the role will include the following:
1. To have a responsibility to provide a high-quality clinical care to patients in Elderly Care and General Internal Medicine services and to continuously update practice based on evidence-based medicine and audit.
2. To provide advice to colleagues in other specialities on elderly patients with problems (surgery).
3. To support teaching and training of nurses, junior medical staff, medical students and to contribute to postgraduate medical education in general.
4. To undertake educational/clinical supervisor duties for junior doctors
5. To support and encourage audit and research
6. To actively participate in CPD and personal development plans.
7. To lead on the POP service

The post holder will be supported by an appropriately skilled medical secretariat.

There are 271 beds in Integrated Medicine provided at Walsall Manor Hospital including a 5 bedded Coronary Care Unit, a 46 bedded Acute Medical Unit for all emergency medical admissions and 13 critical care beds. There are purpose-built Endoscopy and coronary angiography units providing inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services. Outpatient Service facilities are available within the Department of Acute Medicine and are provided from both the main Outpatients Department together with specialist services within Clinical Measurement and Day Hospital, provided from a newly built Diagnostic Treatment Centre.

Walsall Healthcare is an integrated organisation aiming to meet patient needs by delivering services at the place of the patient's choice and with the provision of acute admission facilities. One aspect of this post will be to lead the Frailty and FES service both in hospital and the community. Patients will currently be based on AMU/UECC moving to the Frailty Unit once it is fully established. This new post has been established to support A&E/Medical Admissions and the Frail Elderly Pathway to assess the frail elderly patient presenting to the Manor Hospital. The Elderly Care department have a robust programme for mentoring new consultant appointments and support study leave for CPD requirements.