The post holder will hold a post of Trust specialty registrar in Geriatric Medicine at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust based at Ealing Hospital.
Our collective goal is to provide excellent care for our frail older patient in hospital and back home. We aim to treat acute illness appropriately, to enhance quality of life, to reduce disability, recognise when life is nearing its end, and to provide individualised person‑centred care in the right setting at the right time.
The appointee will be responsible to the Divisional Director of Medicine for London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and report to the Department of Medicine for Older People Clinical Lead.
The Department of Medicine for Older People has a friendly and informal atmosphere where the resident doctors feel well supported and achieve their educational targets. We aspire to high standards of medical and nursing care, routinely assessing aspects of this with regular clinical auditing.
Regular involvement in clinical governance including morbidity and mortality meetings, audit, quality improvement and teaching will be expected.
To support in‑patient care for patients on the Medicine for Older People wards at Ealing hospital.
Responsibilities
* To work in the frailty service, focusing on comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people presenting to the Emergency Department with frailty syndromes.
* To contribute to outpatient care in clinics. These include movement disorder and general rapid access clinics for people with frailty syndromes.
* To work with the rest of the clinical and managerial team to support clinical governance, including contribution to morbidity and mortality meetings, quality improvements projects and clinical audit.
* To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
* To contribute to service development where relevant.
* The job will include liaising with and teaching nursing staff, health care assistants, therapists and other members of the multidisciplinary team. It will also include teaching medical students rotating through the ward, and teaching and contributing to the training of other resident doctors.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We Run Major Acute Services At
* Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top‑rated hyper‑acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper‑acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
* St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
* Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
* Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Connor Doyle
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: connor.doyle@nhs.net
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