Consultant in Older Persons Medicine and Frailty

New consultant posts have arisen within medicine for older people in Wexham Park as a result of a complete reconfiguration of the service. In line with the local priorities of the ICS, services for older adults are to be transformed, encouraging innovative ways of working to remove boundaries between community providers and the acute Trust. For those patients who cannot be managed in the community, we aim to provide excellent clinical care in an environment specifically designed to meet the needs of older adults, particularly those with dementia. We have a newly refurbished older people’s unit specifically for the needs of older adults and those with dementia.

Main duties of the job

We need enthusiastic individuals who can work alongside our existing consultants to further develop our Acute Frailty Service and to bring individual special interests to build on our current services. These posts would particularly suit those looking to work within an organisation that is leading the way in the delivery of genuinely integrated care.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work-life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours. We do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Any consultant who is unable to work full time for personal reasons will be considered to work part time. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on an individual basis in consultation with the Clinical Director.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Essential criteria

• Primary medical degree
• MRCP or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration/on specialist register of GMC

• Higher degree

Experience

• Essential criteria

• Accreditation in General and Geriatric Medicine - CCT or within 6 months of award

Skills

• Essential criteria

• Participation in clinical audit activities
• Participation in dept/Trust research projects
• Participation in training and supervision of junior medical staff/medical students
• Participation in consultant on-call rota

• Experience of business planning
• Management experience/training
• Published research (peer reviewed)
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.