Consultant

Job description

Job responsibilities

This aligns with the trust strategy to develop credible alternatives to emergency department attendance and receives referrals directly from the ambulance service as well as GPs.

Our Frailty Virtual Ward is well established with plans to develop further. Elderly Assessment Unit (EAU), virtual frailty ward and the frailty assessment service in Emergency Department (ED) links with other community initiatives such as 2-hour urgent response.

Our ambition is to open another EAU at North Tyneside Hospital in the future to help further build the vision of responsive frailty services close to patients. In Hexham we also run a 5/7 Elderly Assessment Service (EAC) which sees new (and some review) patients direct via GP referral for patients in the West of the region.

We have subacute wards at Hexham, Wansbeck, and North Tyneside General Hospitals, providing ongoing care for those felt to still need significant medical input, therapy and discharge planning following initial assessment at NSECH. In addition, our Community Hospital wards provide locally based inpatient rehabilitation and palliative care for those requiring a longer inpatient stay.

We have geriatrician input into intermediate care facilities in the North Tyneside areas at North Tyneside Intermediate Care unit and Princes Court with shared care with local GPs and Community re-ablement and rehabilitation teams.

Our inpatient liaison services provide orthogeriatric input to the Acute Trauma Ward at NSECH. We have an established general surgical liaison service for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy, with plans to further develop a proactive high risk outpatient service. We also hope to develop more generic surgical and medical liaison service to other wards in the Trust.

In terms of Outpatients, we run award winning Falls and PD services across the Trust, general outpatients and are Multidisciplinary Assessment Clinics (MDACs) to provide CGA to frail patients.

We are active within planned community services and have geriatricians working within community teams such as the proactive service in North Tyneside, Nursing Home MDT working in Northumberland, and run a number of Community MDTs.

We host junior doctors of all grades across our service and are funded for training 4 Geriatrics Specialty Trainees. In addition to the opportunity to provide medical clinical and educational supervision and training; there is also the opportunity to be involved in training and supervising other staff groups within the department such as our Nurse practitioners and pharmacists.

We are keen for colleagues to develop variety in their job plans, to reflect personal interest and skills. Rotation through many of the areas above is encouraged with four-monthly rotations through the acute service at NSECH built into job plans. The further development of a clinical, educational or research special interest is encouraged.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCP
• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
• Full accreditation with the appropriate Royal College
• Full GMC Registration.

Experience and knowledge

Essential

• Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in specialty
• Clinical Governance
• Expertise in sub specialty.

Management and Administrative

Desirable

• Experience of audit management

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Desirable

• Teaching of nonmedical health professionals
• Educational Qualification

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

Essential

• Experience of and commitment to medical audit.

Desirable

• Publications in referred journals

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

Tyne and Wear

NE29 8NH

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)