Specialty Doctor for Elderly Medicine

The post is based in the Elderly Medicine wards at Airedale General Hospital.
The post holder/s will be responsible to the Elderly medicine consultants and will be expected to:
1. Be involved in the management of in-patients on the elderly medicine wards.
2. Be involved in the teaching of junior doctors and medical
3. Undertake some administrative responsibilities, e.g. leading departmental teaching, participating in governance meetings
4. Be involved with new service developments and portray efficient team ethos
The post-holder undertakes exceptionally to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances essential to the continuity of patient care.
The post holder will be responsible to the Clinical Lead, with their management responsibility resting with the Operations Manager and Clinical Director for Geriatric Medicine. The post holder will allocated a clinical supervisor also.
The job plan is negotiable but it is proposed that for full time staff it will be 10 PAs with non- clinical time included in this.
This is a non-training post and therefore not approved by the Deanery. The post holder will, however, receive the same training and experience in line with existing trainee doctors.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning integrated Trust, set in a beautiful location providing genuine opportunities for a great work-life balance.
We provide high quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist and community care for a population of over 250,000 people across West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire in an area extending from the fringes of north Bradford to parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Our main hospital site is Airedale Hospital, near Keighley and we also provide services from community hospitals - Castleberg Hospital, near Settle, Coronation Hospital in Ilkley and Skipton Hospital - as well as local health centres and General Practices (GPs).
Over the past few years, we have received a number of accolades for patient safety and our quality of care and the Trust has also been named as one of the top 40 hospitals by CHKS, an independent provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement services, on three occasions.

This post is designed to allow expansion of our middle grade tier to meet the increasing demand for care of frail older adults. We hope the post will attract Elderly Medicine doctors with the following backgrounds:
1. Doctors interested in pursuing alternative training programs.
2. Established non-training doctors looking to work in a high-performing, friendly and cohesive team
3. Post foundation trainees looking at alternative pathways to specialist training.
Post-holders will be eligible for up to 10 days of study leave per year plus study budget. Non-clinical time is included in the job plan.
It is anticipated that full-time post-holders will work an average of 10 PAs per week. The successful applicant will contribute to an acute general medical on-call rota (1in10)
In pursuing these duties the post holder will ensure compliance with the NHS Constitution and be familiar with the NHS England Guidance 'Understanding the new NHS'., If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.
We encourage applicants to receive the Covid-19 vaccination but this will not be a condition of deployment with the organisation. We will be asking applicants to share their vaccination status as part of our normal pre employment screening but this will not affect their employment status with the Trust.