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The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
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Dudley, United Kingdom
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Job Reference:
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Posted:
19.08.2025
Expiry Date:
03.10.2025
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Job Description:
At Russell’s Hall Hospital, our Elderly Care Department provides compassionate, expert care tailored to the unique needs of older adults. With a team of highly skilled doctors, nurses, and specialists, we offer comprehensive assessment and treatment plans designed to enhance quality of life, promote independence, and support families every step of the way.
We are entering an exciting phase of growth and innovation in Elderly Care and Frailty services across Dudley, and we are looking for motivated consultants to be part of this transformation. These newly established roles offer a unique opportunity to work across both the surgical wards—supporting perioperative patients—and a dedicated 12-bed Elderly Care ward. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and expanding our surgical liaison services, with the scope to drive real change in how care is delivered.
The postholder will be actively involved in training and supervising resident doctors, contributing to audits, engaging in clinical governance, and helping to drive forward the development of both our Elderly Care and Surgical Liaison pathways.
If you're passionate about delivering high-quality care for older adults, thrive in a multidisciplinary setting, and are keen to lead service development, research, or education, this is an outstanding opportunity to take your career to the next level—and make a meaningful difference to patients across Dudley.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will work a 10 PA timetable, you will lead daily ward rounds supported by a skilled team including specialist nurses and junior doctors, ensuring continuity and excellence in patient management. You’ll also contribute to the perioperative care of surgical patients two afternoons a week and participate in the Care of the Elderly weekend ward round, alongside inclusion in the General Internal Medicine (GIM) weekend rota (1:22).
Ample time is built into the job plan for administrative responsibilities, and you’ll be encouraged to take an active role in clinical governance, audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives. As part of our commitment to education, the successful candidate will also support training and supervision of resident doctors, acting as both a clinical and educational supervisor.
The post holder will be expected to manage the flow of patients through the department and achieve the standards of 12-hour waits for specialist beds and help in achieving the ED 98% target by creating the capacity to move patients from the ED. Support will be available from all other specialties in the Trust to achieve these targets.
Working for our organisation
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of “excellent health care, improved health for all”. We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such asethnically diverse,disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD department. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values, plus much more. For those in a Management/Leadership role, there are additional programmes to support you to develop the skills you need. These include our Managers Essentials Programme and a Leadership Programme that all managers will attend as part of your Dudley Managers Induction. Our Learning Prospectus is a great way to discover the details behind what’s available for you here at The Dudley Group.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
The Job Description is pending Royal College approval
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
* • Degree from a recognised University
* • MRCP (UK) or recognised equivalent qualification
* Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
* Eligible for entry in GMC specialist register (within 6 months)
* Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)
Relevant knowledge and experience requirements
* • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCST/CST
* • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients and offer expert clinical opinion in the specialty
* • Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
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Caring for patients demands integrity, honesty, and accountability. We expect your application and participation to be authentic and a genuine reflection of your own experiences and values.
The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".
To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:
* Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
* Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
* Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked Service Solution' approach across the four sites
Against this context, although this post is hosted by The Dudley Group, there may be an expectation to work flexibly acrossthefour partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.
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