Consultant - Care of The Elderly - Basildon, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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Basildon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Our Elderly Care Medicine service has an exciting opportunity for a Consultant to join our dedicated, experienced and patient focused team caring for our older patients across our Acute wards for a role offering liaison opportunities for Ortho-Geriatric Cross Cover.


This role involves working within our frailty unit and being part of a multidisciplinary team providing high quality care to patients within our community and can be offered as a Substantive post or as a Locum Post with a view to becoming permanent depending on your circumstances.


As our Consultant you will be responsible for the delivery of a dedicated programme of geriatric care, assume responsibility for patients on Elderly Medicine wards with daily review and full consultant ward rounds, regularly pro-actively review of our patients and coordination of care with allied specialties and engage in multi-disciplinary meetings to direct the care of patients.


You will also provide specialist opinions to other hospital specialties as part of frailty liaison service, participate in outpatient clinics supporting the delivery of patient care within Geriatric Medicine in line with national standards and Care Quality Commission requirements, actively participate in developing innovative approach to acute elderly care, develop older peoples acute service pathways, services and Outpatient clinic to facilitate the further development of our Frailty Assessment Unit and actively participate in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives.


Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.


We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.


From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.


We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Are you dedicated, experienced and patient focused, then we want to hear from you?

Please see the attached JD's for further details of these exciting roles.
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