Job summary
Specialty Doctor Elderly Care Medicine (12 month post)
Division: Unplanned and Integrated Care
Salary: £52,530 - £82,400 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: TBC
We are recruiting for a Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
The post holder will work directly with the existing team of 14 Consultant Physicians in Acute Frailty who currently provide a wide range of hospital and community based services including Acute Frailty services as well as running specialist clinics for patients with Parkinson's disease, TIAs, falls and general medical conditions. We have recently started a Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly as part of Frailty- Same day Emergency Care (F-SDEC). Inpatient elderly care wards include 5 acute elderly care wards and an established purpose built Acute Frailty Unit with10 Assessment beds, 22 short stay beds and 2 clinic rooms.. We have opened a 22 bedded Acute Unit based in a Community Hospital in Sheppey.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join a group of 10 Specialist grade doctors (6 in post) and are expected to participate in inpatient ward rounds on a designated inpatient unit, supervised by a named consultant. The Specialist Grades rotate in 4 months planned blocks to allow gaining experience in a range of Units within the department with opportunity to learn from a number of established consultants within the department.
They need to supervise postgraduate doctors and teach them during the ward round. He/she will be able to independently see patients, formulate appropriate management plans and liaise with the consultant as and when needed. They would be actively encouraged to attend a range of subspecialty clinics (Falls, Movement Disorder, Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly and General Frailty Clinics) as well as in a rostered way, gain Orthogeriatrics and Community Geriatrics experience.
The job covers 10 PA's including 9 clinical activities and 1 supportingactivities and CPD. There is an opportunity to join a weekend on call Rota (0900-1700) to cover the planned Community Unit, participating in this will enhance the total no. of PA's paid for. In addition, for suitably qualified and experienced candidates the Trust encourages taking up leadership roles 0.25 - 0.5 PA's.
About us
Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
There is a very well established and reputed CESR program running in the department with direct oversight from the Clinical Director. There are currently 6 candidates progressing well through this program and 2 have successfully submitted their application already. The department has a number of existing substantive consultants who have progressed through this route to specialist registration with GMC.
Job description
Job responsibilities
There is a very well established and reputed CESR program running in the department with direct oversight from the Clinical Director. There are currently 6 candidates progressing well through this program and 2 have successfully submitted their application already. The department has a number of existing substantive consultants who have progressed through this route to specialist registration with GMC.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practise
- Full MRCP
- Previous UK / equivalent experience in General Medicine, Geriatrics
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Demonstates the underpinning subject-specific competencies relevant to the role setting and scope
- Knowledge of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as mental capacity and deprivation of libertynt
- Knowledge of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician.
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Experience
Essential
- General training in Geriatric Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of implementing quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice
- Clinically evaluates and managed a patient, formulating a priorities differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan.
- Shall have completed at least four years' full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty, or have equivalent experience.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practise
- Full MRCP
- Previous UK / equivalent experience in General Medicine, Geriatrics
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Demonstates the underpinning subject-specific competencies relevant to the role setting and scope
- Knowledge of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as mental capacity and deprivation of libertynt
- Knowledge of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician.
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Experience
Essential
- General training in Geriatric Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of implementing quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice
- Clinically evaluates and managed a patient, formulating a priorities differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan.
- Shall have completed at least four years' full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty, or have equivalent experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
