Consultant Geriatrician

Job summary

Seeking a mythical beast or two, Care of the Elderly/Frailty/Rehabilitation Consultant Geriatrician/s wanting to work primarily in community services. Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community Physical and Mental Health community provider, is developing its frailty services utilising the sensible bits from Urgent Care Response and Virtual Ward national guidance. We are seeking a Physician keen to sink roots into the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire area. Working across the South East Hampshire division of SHFT you will support and help mold our expanding team of consultants, nurse consultants, specialty doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and community teams. Based primarily at Petersfield Community Hospital you will work alongside the Divisional Clinical Director/Community Geriatrician based at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, providing oversight to 4 wards, 2 Assessment Units, with linked Virtual Wards, and a single LDS Urgent Care response line.

Senior Specialty or Specialist doctors actively progressing CESR applications should consider talking to us. Interests in teaching, training or service development would be welcomed.

Strong links to Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and funding would allow successful applicants to undertake specialist or acute sessions as part of a job planned portfolio, should they wish.

Petersfield station is 400 metres from the community hospital, with direct links to London.

Main duties of the job

When working on the Community Hospital ward

* Responsibility for leadership of the day to day medical care of inpatients will remain with the nurse consultant.

* Conduct at least one consultant ward round each week to ensure optimum specialist medical management of inpatients.

* Advising Specialty Doctors and Advance Clinical Practitioners on medical management and supporting, but not responsible for, supervision of the trainees (band 7 ACP posts appointed) as appropriate to their experience

When working in the community

* Support of Community Matrons and specialist nursing teams by means of advice, joint visits and education (in any appropriate/opportunistic form).

* Home visit assessments as appropriate.

* In response to COVID19 a rapid and successful shift was made by SHFT teams to wider use of telephone triage and zoom videoconferencing assessment and follow up of patients. It is planned that this will continue alongside face to face visits in the longer term.

* Attend, where appropriate, GP Virtual Ward meetings, which occur regularly in all practices in the locality and are attended by CNSs from the teams wherever possible.

When working in CAU

* Medical assessment of patients referred to the RAU. Both individually and alongside team colleagues.

* Provision of expert diagnostics and symptom control, disseminating principles and practice of Rehabilitative Geriatrics in the management of such patients

* Support of clinical teams in making difficult clinical and ethical decisions.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

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

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