Overview
Overview of the Senior Clinical Fellow role in Orthogeriatrics. The over-riding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement and by working closely with the broader Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT).
The post will be based on the trauma & orthopaedic wards. The post does not include any on-call commitment, and is a fixed term appointment for 12 months.
There are excellent educational opportunities, both formal (weekly medical Grand Round, weekly Geriatric Department educational meeting) and informal. There are also opportunities for audit and QIP projects whilst working at the hospital.
Responsibilities
1. The post holder, along with the rest of the team, will be required to provide a comprehensive medical review of all non-elective admissions to trauma and orthopaedics, who are aged 60 and above. This will include patients with fractured neck of femur, other fragility fractures, patients presenting with falls, and those with medical co-morbidities. The focus will be peri-operative medical optimization, falls review, bone health, and management of medical conditions as needed.
2. To work within the MDT, and support orthopaedic teams to provide holistic, patient-centered care.
3. To attend daily trauma meetings and to assist with the training and organisation of the resident doctors assigned to the orthogeriatrics team.
4. To actively participate in audit/teaching and research activities within the department, including having medical students.
5. To actively seek out patients that could benefit from the orthogeriatric team input.
6. There may be occasions when you are required to undertake similar duties at other hospitals within the Sherwood Forest hospitals NHS Trust.
7. Perform administrative work within prescribed timescales.
8. The post holder will be expected to comply with the Royal College requirements for undertaking continued professional development, and to participate in the trusts appraisal system as appropriate.
9. The post holder will undertake to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances. So far as is consistent with the proper discharge of the above duties, the post holder undertakes to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues.
About the Trust
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Please see attached job description.
This advert closes on Friday 31 Oct 2025
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