Equality and Diversity
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society. We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligibility for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register.
* UK-trained doctors should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview.
* Portfolio Pathway (formerly known as CESR) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded.
* Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will join the MOE team at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The post will contribute to the daily MOE input into the Acute Medical Unit to provide leadership, assessment and management of the frail elderly presenting at the front door, including facilitating discharge for suitable patients to community services. Additionally they will join the team of MOE Consultants providing ward‑based acute medical care and treatment to the frail elderly in RIE. They will join the Edinburgh Community Geriatrics Service working with Edinburgh Hospital at Home, outpatient and community services to support an increasingly complex frail patient group in their own homes. The successful applicant will join a supportive consultant group dedicated to the provision of excellent care to the frail elderly alongside high quality postgraduate and undergraduate training. There is a regular commitment to MOE on call based at RIE and covering community sites including Hospital at Home.
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