Consultant in Elderly Care Medicine
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Basingstoke, Hampshire
- Closing date
- 3 Feb 2021
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- Profession
- Specialist doctor, Geriatric medicine
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time, Part Time
Job Details
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated Consultants in Geriatric Medicine to join our team to support our developing Elderly Care and frailty service and be a part of shaping and delivering these exciting developments. We are in the process of reorganising the way we deliver safe and effective care to older frail patients across the whole healthcare system in North Hampshire.
Covid-19 has affected all our services but our restoration and future resurgence planning are underway. It is an even more important time to advocate for our patient group and deliver sustainable covid secure services.
Our Service includes a front door frailty team, consisting of a Consultant Nurse, a clinical matron, frailty specialist practitioners, senior doctors, a pharmacist and a service co-ordinator. We aim to assess patients presenting to ED with a multidisciplinary approach and plan a timely, safe discharge following full medical assessment. For those patients who require an in-patient admission we are currently developing our frailty liaison service to provide ongoing specialist support to our downstream wards. We also have responsibility of downstream Elderly Care wards for those patients that are admitted. The wards run daily board rounds and are supported by Clinical Matrons and allied health professionals to provide a multidisciplinary team approach to patient care.
We offer rapid assessment clinics throughout the week, as well as weekly Falls clinics and Parkinson’s clinics. The TIA and Stroke service is provided by the specialist team based in Winchester.
We work closely with the OIder Persons Mental Health liaison team and we are developing our links with the local Primary Care Networks to improve integrated care for older people in our area.
We support flexible working patterns where that is required.
On-call commitments are on the acute medicine rota. They currently involve a medical admitting take approximately 1:14. (Additional 2PAs for on call duties) There is a weekend ward round rota approximately 1:12 for morning ward round seeing targeted patients on the medical wards with time off in lieu. This might be negotiable for applicants who are not currently practising GIM.
The applicant should hold a CCT in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine or be within 6 months of completion.
Please ensure that email addresses are provided for referee nominees and other contacts on your CV, along with start and end dates of training courses and employment. All candidates applying for this post will be contacted by email once the short listing process is complete.
Visits to the Trust
Please contact us for more information and any clarification or to come and meet us: 01962 863535 (switchboard)
Dr Catherine Terry (Clinical Lead)
Company
About Us
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) is an NHS provider providing wide acute health services for a population of over 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of Berkshire.
Hampshire Hospitals, which came into being in January 2012 as a result of the integration of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust – which achieved Foundation Trust status in 2006 – and Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.
The trust’s vision is to provide outstanding care for each and every patient, ensuring our patients are well-cared for across the boundaries between our organisation and other providers. In order to provide this, it’s vital that we focus on the care that we provide to the staff who care for our patients, and we need to do all this within our inclusive CARE values, treating patients, colleagues and partners with compassion and respect.
Working for HHFT offers a rewarding career, nationally agreed employment terms and conditions and a range of additional benefits as part of our extensive reward package.
We aim to ensure staff have training and development opportunities to enable them to provide safe, effective, high quality care to our patients, whilst also creating an environment of health and wellbeing. In addition to this, all staff members are able to access a range of benefits and discount services.
Being a part of the Hampshire Hospitals family is also an opportunity to experience what Hampshire has to offer. Hampshire lies between England’s south-central coastline and the North Wessex Downs and is well-equipped and well-connected to meet the needs of everyone. You will also be spoilt for choice by the wealth of parks and woods, historical attractions, cultural landmarks, modern shopping centres, cosmopolitan restaurants and sports facilities, all in easy reach.
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