Overview
Consultant in Geriatrics & Acute Frailty Medicine - Shape the Future of Frailty Care! Join our pioneering Care of the Elderly team at West Suffolk Hospital, where innovation meets compassionate care. This is an opportunity to lead transformative change in frailty care regionally and nationally.
Responsibilities
* Inpatient Geriatrics Ward: Oversee care on a 32-bed ward and develop the ward to provide outstanding care for frail populations.
* Acute Frailty Service: Conduct specialist assessments in ED, AAU, and SDEC (Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–7:00 PM).
* Community Impact: Collaborate with the Virtual Ward and community teams.
* Weekend Rounds: Participate in a 1 in 7 rotation (Saturday–Sunday, 8:30 AM–12:30 PM).
* Lead service development in a subspecialty area within geriatric medicine and provide advice to local GPs and community matrons.
* Work with appropriate community services to enable frail older people to receive treatment safely in their own home.
* Support active case management of frail older people as part of the acute Frailty assessment unit.
* Teaching and training of junior staff, medical students from Cambridge University, and clinical nurse specialists based in geriatric medicine.
* Participate actively in Departmental and Trust Clinical Governance and Audit.
* Ensure active participation in continuing professional development (CPD), appraisal, and revalidation.
About the Trust and Frailty Care
Frailty care is a top priority for our trust. Under new leadership, we are pioneering eFrailty Alerts, electronic clinical frailty scores, and patient-led pathways. By empowering patients, families, and healthcare professionals through education and innovation we are shifting away from traditional hospital-based care. Our approach fosters patient ownership of health, reduces ED waiting times, and delivers high-quality, person-centred frailty care. You will be working in Bury St Edmunds, a charming town in the heart of Suffolk with excellent transport links to Cambridge and London. BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community.
About West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings. The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge. Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital. We strive to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes and uphold values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and teamwork. With nearly 5,000 staff from diverse backgrounds, we aim to be a great place to work. We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone’s voice counts and you can BeKnown for whoever you are.
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