Consultant Geriatrician

Job summary

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people on four sites: Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Solihull Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.

The speciality wishes to recruit additional Consultant Geriatricians at heartlands hospital: these are a combination of new and replacement posts. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with an interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatrics and surgical liaison), movement disorders and acute geriatrics. Further description of the specific services and areas for development are detailed below.

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)

Services unique to BHH site include:

* Opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults, also take part in our OPAL service (older peoples assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.

Main duties of the job

*Opportunity to develop a community service within reach to Intermediate Care centres and developing rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.

*Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service - there is a centralised fracture neck of femur service, which is one the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site.

MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.

*Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for patients over 70, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.

*We have consultant led MDT Fall, MDT Parkinson's, Osteoporosis and general geriatrics clinics.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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