Job overview
We are excited to be advertising fixed term Geriatrics and Frailty Senior Clinical Fellow posts with a Special Interest in Falls.
These posts are designed to be rotational with experience in the Acute Hospital (Queens, Romford) and Community-based Ageing Well Centre (St George’s Wellbeing Hub, Romford). The post includes specialist falls-focused activities across a variety of settings including primary and secondary falls prevention in the falls clinic (AWC), assessment of patients presenting with falls at the front-door, as well as patients admitted to the hospital presenting primarily with fall, complications of fall or with falls identified through CGA.
The post includes Internal Medicine on-call at SpR level, as well as rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front-door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter-team liaison. The post holder would carry out falls quality improvement activities and participate in the training of others and be based within the COE inpatient team to gain general geriatrics inpatient experience to support development of the falls subspecialist interest.
Main duties of the job
The post includes Internal Medicine on-call at SpR level, as well as rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front-door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter-team liaison. The post holder would carry out falls quality improvement activities, participate in the training of others and be based within the COE inpatient team to gain general geriatrics inpatient experience to support development of the falls subspecialist interest.
Please see the attached JD for full details.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
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We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Full Registration with the GMC
2. Full MRCP
3. Valid ALS
Desirable criteria
4. Other relevant post-graduate degrees or diplomas
Skills / Qaulifications
Essential criteria
5. Core procedural skills in line with completion of IMT or equivalent.
6. Experience in UK health system.
7. 2 years experience at ST3+ level in a UK Geriatric Medicine post including internal medicine on-calls
Desirable criteria
8. Previous geriatric medicine experience. Risk management experience.
Professional /personal
Essential criteria
9. QIP or audit completion.
10. Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work in the multidisciplinary team.
11. Ability to prioritise and communicate in different situations and under pressure.
Desirable criteria
12. Teaching experience / certificate
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.