This Consultant Physician post in Healthcare for the Older Person and Stroke Medicine sits in the Northern services of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, based at North Devon District Hospital. The work centres on developing frailty care, including the front door frailty team and frailty acute hospital at home. The post serves an growing older population across a largely rural area, with scope to build sub-specialties such as ortho-geriatrics, stroke or syncope, and twice-weekly support from colleagues at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
What the job involves
- Provide consultant physician care in older people and stroke medicine at North Devon District Hospital
- Contribute to the front door frailty service
- Help develop the frailty acute hospital at home service
- Pursue a sub-specialty interest in frailty, ortho-geriatrics, movement disorders, syncope, stroke, community or peri-operative medicine
- Further develop older people and stroke services at the Northern site
- Work with colleagues across both sites, including the team at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
What's required
Registration & licences
- GMC registration
What's offered
- 32 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 34 days
- NHS Pension scheme
- Occupational health services, including counselling and wellbeing activities
- Flexible working schemes and family friendly policies
- Funding for care certificate, degree or leadership qualifications
- Study days, CPD and rotational placements
- Staff discounts and Blue Light Card
- Salary sacrifice, car lease and cycle to work schemes
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
