Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine inMilton Keynes inMilton Keynes PUBLISHED
WED 15 JAN 2025
The successful applicant will play a vital role in shaping services for elderly patients and will work alongside 10 other Consultant Geriatricians covering various specialties such as stroke and rehabilitation. This position requires active participation in multidisciplinary team meetings and a commitment to delivering quality care for vulnerable populations while collaborating effectively with healthcare professionals in both hospital and community environments.
This is an exciting time to join this expanding department and be part of the development and improvement of our front door frailty services including acute assessments in ED and SDEC; clinical responsibility with colleagues for our developing virtual ward, specialty reviews on inpatient wards, community multidisciplinary team meetings; advice for GPs and ambulatory care assessments. The successful applicant will be an integral part of a front door frailty service with 3 other established consultants.
The postholder will assist with shaping the services for elderly patients. They will join 10 Consultant Geriatricians, who provide the following: stroke, geriatric medicine, Orthogeriatric, perioperative care of the elderly, rehabilitation and frailty, front door Geriatrics and Virtual Ward. The Trust is working closely with community services and commissioners to develop a seamless pathway for patients across primary, community and acute care.
The postholder will be responsible for providing inpatient, acute front door admission avoidance, virtual ward (frailty) and outpatient services.
The main remit of the post will involve care of 15 General Medical inpatients with an elderly care focus, participation to the on-call Thrombolysis rota (weekends and Bank holidays), Perioperative Care of the Elderly Service and front door Frailty Service, Virtual ward and acute GIM on-calls.
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Job Outline -
- Provide Consultant cover to 15-20 General Medical inpatients with a focus on Elderly care, developing the ward into a specialist Elderly Care Ward.
- Provide front door geriatric medicine services in ED and SDEC with other geriatrician colleagues and working with our excellent frailty therapy team.
- Support delivery of the virtual ward and front door frailty service in partnership with the community multi-disciplinary team.
- The successful candidate will participate in the general medical on-call / SDEC evening rota on the weekdays for the out of hours responsibility of acute medical patients. This will be on a 1:20 basis (21:00 08:00) and a 1:27 basis for weekends (08:00 08:00). Plus, participation in the daytime weekend acute stroke thrombolysis rota on a 1:10 basis.
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