Consultant in Elderly Medicine - Interest in Silver Trauma

Job summary

**PENDING JD APPROVAL FROM ROYAL COLLEGE**

Consultant in Elderly Medicine - Interest in Silver Trauma, Orthogeriatrics and Perioperative Medicine

This post presents an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join a dynamic and highly regarded elderly medicine department. Our department has an excellent track record in service development, transformation, and integrated working across departments and across the organisation. This post will involve working with the orthogeriatric team who provide input to patients with neck of femur fractures enabling assessment of non-hip fragility fractures and other silver trauma patients admitted under the orthopaedic and general surgery teams.

The orthogeriatric service is run by Dr Julie Vowles, with consultant support also provided by Dr Kishan Parmar, Dr Aloysius D'Souza and Dr Zeenat Ijaz. Surgical liaison is currently provided by Dr D'Souza. The fracture liaison service is led by Dr Parmar working with two fracture liaison nurses.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible to the Director of Unplanned Care and job plan negotiated annually. The role is a 10+1 PA post - 8.75 direct clinical care, 2.25 Supporting Professional Activities as agreed by the medical director, reviewed as part of the job planning process. The latter includes service development, audit, personal CPD and supervision (both clinical and educational). Personal CPD must be included as part of annual appraisal which is mandatory and required for the revalidation process.

The post holder will together with their consultant colleagues and other health care professionals, provide an effective and comprehensive service for older people and support continuing service developments, audit and clinical governance.

The post holder will be encouraged to develop an area of expertise of special interest that they may have in Geriatric Medicine in accordance with the service needs of the department but we are particularly interested in candidates with experience in Orthogeriatric and Perioperative medicine and a desire to further develop these pathways. They will have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of the department. They will also undertake administrative duties associated with the care of patients and the running of the clinical department.

It is a requirement of the post that every doctor takes part in annual job planning and annual appraisal as part of the revalidation of cycle.

About us

Joining our Hillingdon Team provides a unique opportunity for joint working across boundaries as we are an established stakeholder in Hillingdon Health and Care Partners (HHCP). The partners are the Acute Trust, Central and North West London Foundation Trust (who provide community and mental health services), Hillingdon GP confederation and the Voluntary Sector (H4All) who work closely with the local authority and Brunel University. This is in line with North West London integrated care system (ICS) to provide outcome based care. We are further developing specialist services provided by all four partners in HHCP especially in admission prevention, falls, fracture liaison service, early supported discharge, care home liaison with a new focus on increased community support.

We have good academic links with the nearby Brunel University with a vision towards setting up and driving forward an academic health campus with close links between the University and Hillingdon Hospitals Trust and a newly formed Medical School. The trust is already involved with the Physicians Associate program run through Brunel.

Within the next 4 years a new hospital is planned for this site and the post holder will have the opportunity to shape services and support this work through the clinical strategy and design process.