Consultant Physician in Care of the Older Adult

Overview

In this role you will provide high-quality care for frail older patients across the Trust, joining a growing Care of the Older Adult team. You will work across sites to expand acute frailty and short-stay capacity, contributing to Frailty SDEC and cross-site initiatives. The post includes out-of-hours on-call responsibility and opportunities to lead service development and outpatient clinics. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver timely, patient-centered care and achieve clinical and quality targets.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care for frail older patients on base or remote wards and respond to referrals
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on acute floors and base wards to ensure appropriate care settings
• Promote care closer to home via community partners and virtual wards to reduce hospital utilization
• Maintain enhanced clinical skills in assessment and management of acutely ill patients
• Engage in outpatient work and development of hot clinics
• Lead and participate in development of new services (surgical liaison, continence) and take on leadership roles
• Open to cross-site working and contribute to on-call rota
• Participate in achieving national and local clinical and quality targets

Key requirements

• MBBS/MBChB with MRCP accreditation or equivalent
• Full GMC registration with licence to practise
• Comprehensive clinical experience in general medicine and geriatrics
• High standard of clinical skill in geriatrics and elderly care
• Desirable: Masters/PhD in elderly care related field
• Special interest in geriatrics subspecialties and willingness to take on service leadership roles

• Strong teamwork and collaboration in multidisciplinary settings
• Excellent written and verbal communication with patients and families
• Leadership and initiative in service development
• Geriatric medicine expertise
• General medicine competencies in acutely ill patients
• Outpatient clinic development (hot clinics)

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