Consultant Geriatrician - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job summary:

A Consultant Geriatrician is required for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), part of University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older adults, leading on the care of older adults across both hospital and community settings.

The speciality wishes to recruit additional consultants:
these are a combination of new and replacement posts. We welcome and can accommodate all sub-specialty interests and working less than full time can be accommodated. We provide front door frailty provision and comprehensive geriatric assessment to our local population.

The services offered at QEHB include:

Inpatient care on Healthcare for Older People (HCOP) wards.
Older People Assessment & Liaison (OPAL) front door frailty
Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)
Perioperative medicine including orthogeriatrics, major trauma service, perioperative care of older people undergoing surgery (POPS) and oncogeriatrics.
Subspecialty clinics including movement disorders, frailty, falls and bone health.
Academic geriatric medicine with established links to the University of Birmingham.
Frailty virtual wards.
Community geriatrics including inreach services to the local community hubs.

Main duties, tasks & skills required:

Prerequisite:

Must be entered onto the GMC register.
Must possess MRCP or equivalent.
Must be on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & Internal Medicine

Key Clinical Responsibilities:

Care of patients and administrative duties related to patient care.
Contribution to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity.
Regular participation in speciality and multidisciplinary meetings.
Regular participation in quality improvement, audit, and research.
Provision of cover for consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with Trust policy.
Evening, weekend and bank holiday oncall commitments for specialty and internal medicine.
Support of the speciality and wider hospital in emergencies

Indicative job plan*:

Training and experience in Geriatric and Internal Medicine in an accredited training programme.
Excellent communication skills
Team management skills
Ability to work in a multiprofessional team.
Enthusiasm to contribute, develop and lead service development.

About us:

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.

This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.

This is more than words. We are taking action.

Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.

We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description:

8.0 PA Direct Clinical Care:

7day seniorled patient care
Subspecialty work and associated administration
Prospective cover for colleagues leave
Up to 1PA for acute unselected medical take.

2.0 PA Supporting Professional Activity:

CME/ CPD/ appraisal/ revalidation
Clinical governance/ Quality improvement
Service development
Teaching
Educational supervision
A detailed job plan will be agreed with the post holder on appointment.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential:

Entered onto the GMC register.
Possess MRCP or equivalent.
CCT in Geriatric and General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & General Medicine.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

Certificate of Sponsorship:

UK Professional Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.