Senior Geriatric & General Medicine Consultant in Barnsley

We are looking for an innovative, enthusiastic, and patient-centred consultant geriatrician to join our team in the Care for Older People at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. We are a friendly, dynamic and diverse team of experienced clinicians who will provide mentoring and support tailored to your specialist interests, and who recognise the importance of a good work-life balance.

We have a long tradition in multi-professional training and education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as guiding candidates through a successful CESR application. We are actively involved in care transformation for older people of Barnsley at Integrated Care Board level through the development of a Frailty Virtual Ward, Frailty SDEC, and Integrated Care with community colleagues, as well as service development and delivery in hospital inpatient and outpatient settings.

A detailed job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate on appointment. The successful applicant will be contracted to 10 PAs per week on average. It is anticipated that the split of programmed activities will be 8.5 direct clinical care and 1.5 supporting professional activities to ensure successful GMC revalidation. Additional PAs can be negotiated and agreed with the Divisional Director and Clinical Lead to reflect additional management and professional responsibilities, but the successful candidate will not be expected to commit to working more than 10 programmed activities on average per week. The agreed job plan will be subject to annual review and job planning.

This post will include weekend working on Frailty SDEC, currently just on Saturdays. Seven days a week working is currently being reviewed by the Trust and the COTE team is expected to provide 7 days consultant cover for Geriatric Medicine once this is operational.

Person Specification

• Knowledge of multidisciplinary clinical audit principles
• Evidence of effective teaching to medical students and doctors in training and to the multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to present effectively to an audience using a variety of methods.

Qualifications

• MRCP or equivalent
• Full GMC registration, and on the specialist register OR Full GMC registration and within 12 months of specialist registration due to completion of training or within 12 months of specialist registration due to application via CESR with the submission completed at time of application for post

Experience

• Experience in the management of a broad GIM caseload
• Experience in the management of an Elderly Care Medicine caseload
• Experience in a specialist interest that will complement those of other staff

Skills & Attributes

• Willingness and ability to fulfil the key elements of the job description
• Possession of the clinical skills required to perform the job including both elderly care and general internal medicine
• Ability to cope with the demands of a DGH based Consultant
• Ability to lead and develop the service
• Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual, multi-professional and team basis with all levels of staff
• Ability to communicate effectively, written and orally
• Ability to empathise and demonstrate probity
• Ability and evidence of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to be flexible to meet service demands
• Understanding of clinical governance and the individual responsibilities it implies

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.