Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate keen to pursue a career in geriatric and general medicine. This vacancy has arisen as a result of a gap in the geriatric medicine training programme and maternity leave. The successful applicant will be expected to work on Burghfield ward, which is a 28 bedded mixed sex elderly care ward. The ward (alongside four other acute geriatric medicine wards) is responsible for the care of elderly patients who have been admitted via the acute medical take and are expected to need longer than 72 hours stay in hospital. There is also opportunity to spend time in the falls clinic, rapid access clinic for older patients (RACOP) and review older patients referred by other inpatient medical teams. The Burghfield team works under the supervision of three rotating consultant geriatricians with special interests in falls, movement disorders, dementia and research. The junior team comprises of two FY1, two FY2 trainees, one specialty doctor and a Physician Associate.
Main duties of the job
Attend Consultant and own ward rounds.
Work alongside the Consultant to provide expertise to the frail older patients under the care of the surgical teams
Gather collateral history from patients and their families or GP
Work alongside the multidisciplinary team to help patients to achieve their rehabilitation goals
Attend and contribute to the 'best interest meetings' with families of patients with cognitive impairment to plan for future care
Review Elderly Care ward referrals from other specialties as per rota
Attend RACOP (Rapid Access Clinic for the Older Person) as per rota
Attend weekly falls clinic on Tuesday afternoons.
About us
The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading's biggest employer.
The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, HASU, renal unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification
If you would like to discuss this role further or arrange a visit, please kindly contact either of the following:
Dr. Nida Butt Nida.Butt@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Dr. Elizabeth Castaneda-Caicedo Elizabeth.Castaneda-Caicedo@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification
If you would like to discuss this role further or arrange a visit, please kindly contact either of the following:
Dr. Nida Butt Nida.Butt@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Dr. Elizabeth Castaneda-Caicedo Elizabeth.Castaneda-Caicedo@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent (at time of commencement of post)
Desirable
- Advanced Life Support certificate
Clinical Experience & Skills
Essential
- Experience in Geriatric Medicine
- Evidence of achievement of CT2/IMT2/3 competencies by the start date of the post; or able to demonstrate achievement of the necessary equivalent competencies
Desirable
- Minimum 1 year NHS experience
Clinical Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of experience in acute medical specialties, with experience of managing patients on unselected medical take
Desirable
- Specific management of geriatric syndromes including dementia
Audit Management & IT
Essential
- Ability to work within clinical governance guidelines
- Undertake audits and present data as required.
- Good IT skills, use of patient and hospital database
Desirable
- Completion of Quality Improvement Project
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
- Willingness to take responsibility and exert appropriate authority.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and able to work within MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team)
- Accountability; ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal skills; ability to see patients as people, ability to empathize and work co-operatively with others
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent (at time of commencement of post)
Desirable
- Advanced Life Support certificate
Clinical Experience & Skills
Essential
- Experience in Geriatric Medicine
- Evidence of achievement of CT2/IMT2/3 competencies by the start date of the post; or able to demonstrate achievement of the necessary equivalent competencies
Desirable
- Minimum 1 year NHS experience
Clinical Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of experience in acute medical specialties, with experience of managing patients on unselected medical take
Desirable
- Specific management of geriatric syndromes including dementia
Audit Management & IT
Essential
- Ability to work within clinical governance guidelines
- Undertake audits and present data as required.
- Good IT skills, use of patient and hospital database
Desirable
- Completion of Quality Improvement Project
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
- Willingness to take responsibility and exert appropriate authority.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and able to work within MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team)
- Accountability; ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal skills; ability to see patients as people, ability to empathize and work co-operatively with others
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
