Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic Consultant colleague to join our friendly Care of the Elderly team, to develop and expand our geriatric services.
We believe the job plan provides flexibility for you to develop this service as you see fit within departmental and Trust objectives. We will offer any newly appointed consultant the opportunity of mentorship, provided by the existing consultant geriatricians. The Trust is also a Major Trauma Centre and support will be offered by the geriatricians who provide care for patients admitted under the Major Trauma pathway, though you will have no responsibility for major trauma patients. You will be encouraged to join our highly rated consultant leadership and management training programme.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide clinical and managerial leadership to an acute elderly care ward. You will also develop a subspecialty area of interest of your choice (eg. liaison geriatrics, community, frailty). Some of the other duties will include:
- Providing direct input to an elderly medicine ward, assuming a continuous commitment for the care of ward inpatients. You will provide oversight and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your ward.
- Carrying out general geriatrics, falls, specialty or ‘hot’ clinic. There will be opportunities to develop an area of sub-speciality (eg. continence, frailty ‘hot’ clinics, dementia).
- Participating in the General (Internal) Medicine 1:18 consultant on-call rota at Royal Preston Hospital, including conducting the ‘Post-Take’ ward round.
- Exercising the freedom to develop the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources.
- Providing the professional lead, in conjunction with colleagues, regarding the development of protocols/guidelines and practice with particular reference to the area of elderly care medicine services.
- Lead audit and quality improvement activities, participate in morbidity and mortality and clinical and governance meetings.
- Engaging fully in annual appraisal, Continuing professional development and the Revalidation process
Working for our organisation
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute Trusts in the North West of England with all the main specialties. The Trust has a complement of 1,270 beds for a resident population of 390,000 and a regional population of 1.5 million. We are the tertiary centre for major trauma, neuro-sciences, renal, oncology and plastic surgery/burns for Lancashire and South Cumbria. Undergraduate medical student teaching commenced here in 2003 and considerable opportunities exist for research and development which are integral to Teaching Hospital status.
There are two main hospital sites; Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital. Both Preston and Chorley have excellent rail and road links, and there is very good access to Manchester airport. Recreational and sports facilities are many and varied, with the Lake District, Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland areas of outstanding beauty all within an hour’s drive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team
Informal enquiries and requests to visit the Hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Dr Geraldine Skailes, Medical Director and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice.
2. MBBS/MBChB or equivalent.
3. MRCP or equivalent.
4. On the GMC specialist register (geriatric medicine) or within six months of being admitted to the register if currently in a training programme within the UK, i.e. within six months of expected CCT date at the date of AAC.
Desirable criteria
5. MSc or PhD
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
6. Wide experience in Acute and General Medicine
7. Experience in medical education.