Locum Consultant in Geriatric/General Internal Medicine

Job description

Job responsibilities

Perioperative Medicine: OUH has an established perioperative medicine service in the acute Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU) and hip fractures. Over the last few years our services have expanded to provide consultant-led medical perioperative care to the major trauma, elective orthopaedics and the vascular services. We also form a part of the TAVI MDT. We particularly focus on older patients having emergency surgery, and patients with complex co-morbidities.

General Internal Medicine: Each appointee will spend 8 weeks each year in Acute General Medicine (AGM) on the Horton Hospital in Banbury. AGM on both hospital sites has recently undergone reconfiguration with a greater focus of the acute medical teams on Acute Medicine (first 72hrs of care) and Complex Medicine (anticipated LOS >72hrs).

The Horton is a District General Hospital in Banbury with an Emergency Department admitting a largely unselected medical take, although some specialist services (e.g. STEMIs, acute general surgery) go directly to John Radcliffe. There is a team of at least 8 general physicians based at the Horton operating a team with ward-based structure, with on-call currently 1 in 8.

Ambulatory Units: based at Horton and the John Radcliffe Hospitals, these offer senior clinician-led multidisciplinary assessment and ambulatory treatment. All areas have access to point of care testing as well as plain radiology. You will be expected to coordinate and review the care of up to 25 patients per day and supervise advanced care practitioners and junior doctors. Direct phone support to local GPs is provided. Over 80% of patients are managed on an ambulatory basis.

Complex Medicine Units: At the John Radcliffe Hospital site; four wards managing acutely unwell patients with the support of a true multidisciplinary team. Common presentations are geriatric syndromes of falls, delirium and immobility for which the underlying aetiology is to be worked up and managed in conjunction with preventing further harms of in-hospital stays.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

• GMC registration
• MRCP or equivalent
• SCE Geriatric medicine
• CCT/CCST/CESR in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine

Experience

Essential

• Experience at consultant level in inpatient Geriatrics, Community and Ambulatory medicine

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of management of change/service design

Desirable

• Education qualification

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way, Headington

Oxford

OX3 9DU

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)