Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor inGillingham inGillingham PUBLISHED
THU 14 NOV 2024
Medway NHS Foundation Trust r4SHtV4X
The position does not require on-call commitments, allowing for a focused work-life balance while providing the opportunity to support a pathway to spezial registration for those pursuing a career as a consultant. The ideal candidate will actively contribute to the team's goals of delivering high-quality, safe patient care and advancing their own professional development within a supportive environment containing both senior and junior medical staff.
Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor
Division:Surgery and Anaesthetics
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/ Pro Rata
Contract Length:12 Months Fixed Term
We are recruiting for aOrthogeriatric Specialty Doctorwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
We are looking to recruit a dynamic Specialty Doctor to work alongside our Orthogeriatric team in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The Orthogeriatric team provide comprehensive care for all hip fracture and NAFF patients.
This post is fixed term for 12 Months with no oncall commitments.
We treat around 360 hip fracture patients per year, 40-50 other femoral fracture (distal and shaft) patients and 30-40 peri-prosthetic femur fracture patients. At any one time there are approximately 30-35 his and NAFF patients under our care.
We have accelerated hip pathway and aim to follow NICE guidelines, BPT and GIRFT pathways to continuously improve patient care. Our aim is to optimise achievement of best practice tariff providing high quality and safe care.
the Orthogeriatric team has one Consultant and four junior doctors. the team is supported by 14 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons, 5 specialist trainees and 7 SAS doctors. Currently we have two full time qualifies trauma-coordinators.
We will actively support doctors progressing through the Portfolio pathway to get specialist registration and full time substantive orthogeriatric consultant.
About us
- Work alongside orthogeriatric consultant and provide direct input to patients admitted under the hip fracture pathway and patients with NAFF fractures.
- Improve pre-operative optimisation, lead the perioperative medical management of fractured-femur, peri prosthetic fracture and NAFF patients and to coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.
- Provide oversite and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team (4 doctors) and contribute towards the teaching and training.
- Participate in the daily trauma meetings, daily MDT meetings, weekly handover meeting and monthly hip fracture/NAFF meetings to improve care in line with NICE/BPT/NAFF/GIRFT guidelines
- Participate and attend the monthly audit and clinical governance meetings.
- Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintenance of continuing professional development.
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