Job summary
The post holder will join our new Frailty Assessment Unit, which is the only frailty assessment unit in North West London to achieve all 5 of NHS England's Acute Frailty service recommendations. This is a stand-out unit offering acute front-door frailty care in an 8 bedded assessment unit with direct pathways from community and LAS as well as ED. This provides the opportunity to work alongside a developing ACP and MDT workforce. The post-holder will also be responsible for managing 15 inpatients on one of our general Elderly Medicine wards (Hayes ward). Hayes ward is a 30 bedded ward and the post holder will manage the ward with another consultant colleague. There is also dedicated time within the job plan to cover their colleague on Hayes ward, and a further colleague on a separate Elderly Medicine ward (Franklin ward).
We would consider applications for a 1 year fixed term contract for those candidates who will be willing to use this post as a vehicle to progress to specialist registration via the CESR/Portfolio route.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible to the Director of Unplanned Care at The Hillingdon Hospital. The role is a 10 +1 PA post - 9 direct clinical care (DCC), 2 supporting professional activities (SPA) as agreed by the medical director, the latter includes service development, audit and personal CPD.
The post holder will, together with their consultant colleagues and other health care professionals in the Directorate, provide an effective and comprehensive service for older people and support continuing service developments, audit and clinical governance.
The post holder will participate in the on-call emergency medical rota on an approximately 1: 22 basis. During the week, the post holder will be on call from home from 1900-0700, and then complete an onsite post take ward round the following morning from 0700-0900. During split weekend on calls (Saturday or Sunday), the post holder will be present on site from 0700-1900 and then on call from home until the following morning at 0700.
The post holder will be encouraged to develop an area of expertise of special interest that he or she may have in Geriatric Medicine in accordance with the service needs of the department. The post-holder will have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of the department. They will also undertake administrative duties associated with the care of patients and the running of the clinical department.
About us
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the link for the job description and person specification for full details of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the link for the job description and person specification for full details of the post.
Person Specification
Essential & Desirable
Essential
- MRCP
- Acute Medicine - Subspecialty Interest complimentary to rest of directorate
- Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
- Experience in Training, Research and Clinical Governance/audit ? Demonstrable commitment to teach, train and assess teaching of undergraduates, post graduates and nursing staff ? Proven teaching experience ? Experience of clinical audit and enable delivery of good practice ? Evidence of quality and service improvement
- Clinical and educational supervisor training courses
- Basic IT skills, i.e. able to handle e-mails and presentations
- Well-developed effective leadership and management skills - NHS Leadership Framework.
- Demonstrates ability, initiative, drive to contribute to the strategy, deliver and support change and improve services for patients placing care at the heart of the service
- Ability to lead and manage complex systems
- Ability to effectively plan and manage resources, people and performance
- Ability to develop, influence, communicate and deliver the strategy working with divisions
- Demonstrate leadership, team player, flexibility and organisational skills within a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to motivate staff, to facilitate changes in clinical practice.
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Academic Achievements / Research / publications - research is encouraged.
- Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
- More advanced IT skills
- Knowledge of Finance / Budgets
- Attended management training course
Person Specification
Essential & Desirable
Essential
- MRCP
- Acute Medicine - Subspecialty Interest complimentary to rest of directorate
- Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
- Experience in Training, Research and Clinical Governance/audit ? Demonstrable commitment to teach, train and assess teaching of undergraduates, post graduates and nursing staff ? Proven teaching experience ? Experience of clinical audit and enable delivery of good practice ? Evidence of quality and service improvement
- Clinical and educational supervisor training courses
- Basic IT skills, i.e. able to handle e-mails and presentations
- Well-developed effective leadership and management skills - NHS Leadership Framework.
- Demonstrates ability, initiative, drive to contribute to the strategy, deliver and support change and improve services for patients placing care at the heart of the service
- Ability to lead and manage complex systems
- Ability to effectively plan and manage resources, people and performance
- Ability to develop, influence, communicate and deliver the strategy working with divisions
- Demonstrate leadership, team player, flexibility and organisational skills within a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to motivate staff, to facilitate changes in clinical practice.
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Academic Achievements / Research / publications - research is encouraged.
- Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
- More advanced IT skills
- Knowledge of Finance / Budgets
- Attended management training course
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).
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).
