Consultant Geriatrician

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 January 2025

Job summary

We are looking for versatile, enthusiastic individual to join our Consultant Geriatrician team based at Lymington Hospital.

This is an exciting time in for the Trust as we are on a journey to bring together all NHS community and mental health services provided in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, including services provided by Solent NHS Trust, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, that delivers Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services CAMHS in Hampshire, in what we call project Fusion.

Main duties of the job

This is an ideal post for a geriatrician who enjoys being hands on and working closely with colleagues in primary, secondary and intermediate care. There are opportunities to get involved in admission prevention, virtual wards, proactive community services for older people living with frailty, advance care planning and end of life care.

The environment within the hospital is ideal for older patients who need high quality medical and nursing care but not intensive medical intervention or referral to more specialist services. A particular strength is end of life care.

About us

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is one of only a few trusts in the country that are providers of both mental and physical health and learning disability services that has care available to them for every stage of someone's life.

Our of team of 6,500 staff who work from over 300 sites, care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.

We provide care and treatment for around 1.7 million people across both rural and urban areas of the South Coast delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries), hospital and forensic (secure) units.

Our aim is to work alongside the people we support and our health and care partners, to constantly improve and deliver the best possible care.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

It not all about work and our locations have good road and rail links to London. The national airports are in easy travelling distance along with good ferry links to Europe.

Date posted

23 December 2024

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£99,532 to £131,964 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SW-MED-4884

Job locations

Lymington New Forest Hospital

Wellworthy Road

Lymington

Hampshire

SO41 8QD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBBS or equivalent
MRCP or equivalent
Full registration with the General Medical Council GMC with licence to practice
Entry on Specialist Register in Geriatric medicine
Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training CCT in Geriatric medicine or within 12 months of award of CCT by date of interview

Experience

Essential

Ability to provide expert clinical opinion across a wide range of problems within General Internal Medicine and Geriatric medicine
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBBS or equivalent
MRCP or equivalent
Full registration with the General Medical Council GMC with licence to practice
Entry on Specialist Register in Geriatric medicine
Holder of Certificate of Completion of Training CCT in Geriatric medicine or within 12 months of award of CCT by date of interview

Experience

Essential

Ability to provide expert clinical opinion across a wide range of problems within General Internal Medicine and Geriatric medicine
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients

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.