Consultant Physician - Geriatric Medicine inStockport inStockport PUBLISHED 25 OCT 2024
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust rEuvsziL
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We have an exciting opportunity to welcome a full-time Consultant into the Geriatric Medicine team and the successful applicants will join our expanding team of motivated Consultants.
Candidates with a CCT or CESR in Geriatric Medicine are encouraged to apply. Those working towards the CESR qualification who already have experience working at consultant level are encouraged to contact the department to discuss other options. We can also accept applicants who are within 6 months of achieving a CCT in Geriatric Medicine.
We are also keen to support colleagues' professional clinical areas of interest and are open to negotiations on your individual job plan.
Those candidates who wish to work flexibly are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Provide senior clinical decision-making on a geriatric ward designated for patients who are not ready for immediate discharge or transfer, including conducting consultant ward and board rounds.
- Offer clinical support for specialist outpatient services as agreed with the service.
- Participate in the out of hours General Internal Medicine Consultant Rota.
- Monitor and ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical practice, actively participating in audits.
- Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties are required, and for contributing to undergraduate and post-graduate and continuing medical education activity.
- Contribute and lead on transformational pieces of work leading teams through change as the pathways evolve.
The post holders will be supported and responsible for supervision of junior/middle grade medical staff. The successful post holder will be supported to undertake formal training in educational supervision.
The post holders will build on the existing good relationships with primary and community care services so that frail, older people have risk factors identified and can be signposted to services that will support them, to maintain their independence as close to home as possible.
This may include co-ordination of specialist multi-disciplinary meetings which include primary and community care services to ensure that patients have robust care plans which help them to stay healthy at home for as long as possible.
About usThe Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
- If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
We have an exciting opportunity to welcome a full-time Consultant into the Geriatric Medicine team and the successful applicants will join our expanding team of motivated Consultants.
Candidates with a CCT or CESR in Geriatric Medicine are encouraged to apply. Those working towards the CESR qualification who already have experience working at consultant level are encouraged to contact the department to discuss other options. We can also accept applicants who are within 6 months of achieving a CCT in Geriatric Medicine.
We are also keen to support colleagues' professional clinical areas of interest and are open to negotiations on your individual job plan.
Those candidates who wish to work flexibly are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Provide senior clinical decision-making on a geriatric ward designated for patients who are not ready for immediate discharge or transfer, including conducting consultant ward and board rounds.
- Offer clinical support for specialist outpatient services as agreed with the service.
- Participate in the out of hours General Internal Medicine Consultant Rota.
- Monitor and ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical practice, actively participating in audits.
- Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties are required, and for contributing to undergraduate and post-graduate and continuing medical education activity.
- Contribute and lead on transformational pieces of work leading teams through change as the pathways evolve.
The post holders will be supported and responsible for supervision of junior/middle grade medical staff. The successful post holder will be supported to undertake formal training in educational supervision.
The post holders will build on the existing good relationships with primary and community care services so that frail, older people have risk factors identified and can be signposted to services that will support them, to maintain their independence as close to home as possible.
This may include co-ordination of specialist multi-disciplinary meetings which include primary and community care services to ensure that patients have robust care plans which help them to stay healthy at home for as long as possible.
About us
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
- If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
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