Speciality Doctor - Geriatric Medicine

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust are seeking to appoint a Speciality Doctorin Geriatric Medicine to support Geriatric Medicine. The role is 09:00 - 17:00 with weekend ward cover as part of 1 in 4 rota with perspective cover for annual and other leave.

Successful candidates will be working with other middle grade staff to provide first line of support for Specialty Trainees and Foundation Doctors and take the lead in the care of the seriously ill patients; see and treat all categories of patients in Frail/Elderly Care/Geriatric and General Internal Medicine., The main duties are of the role will include the following:
1. Reception/diagnosis/treatment of new patients
2. Assist the Consultant on the ward.
3. Independent ward rounds once a week
4. Provide support to junior doctors.
5. Assist in teaching junior members of staff in the department
6. Act as team leader in the reception/diagnosis/treatment of seriously ill patients in the absence of the Consultant
7. Participation in Saturday wards cover.
8. Maintain a satisfactory standard of education as determined at the yearly performance review/ Mandatory training a Trust appraisals
9. Encouraged to partake in the Trust Speciality Doctor teaching and training programme
10. Provide prospective cover for colleagues' absence
11. Participation in departmental teaching

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

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides local general hospital and community services to around 260,000 people in Walsall and the surrounding areas.

We are the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, providing inpatients and outpatients at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development of our Pleck Road site was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust has state of the art operating theatres, treatment areas and equipment.

We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from some 60 sites including Health Centre's and GP surgeries. Covering Walsall and beyond, our multidisciplinary services include rapid response in the community and home-based care, so that those with long-term conditions and the frail elderly, can remain in their own homes to be cared for.