Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Orthogeriatrics, Southend-on-Sea

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Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Orthogeriatrics, Southend-on-Sea

Client:

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job Category:

Consulting

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Yes

Job Reference:

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7

Posted:

02.03.2025

Expiry Date:

16.04.2025

Job Description:

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding geriatrician team at Southend Hospital. We are looking for a team player who can embrace new ways of working and take an active role in further developing our Older People’s Service.

Our Geriatric Service is a friendly, dynamic team, working to provide excellent clinical care across the whole spectrum of geriatric conditions. We work in close collaboration with our colleagues in Orthopaedics, Surgery, Oncology, General Medicine, and Rehabilitation.

We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and committed Consultant to join our well-regarded, supportive department to share in delivering and further developing our high-quality services. We are eager to support your professional development, and we expect you to be able to develop subspecialty interests.

Main duties of the job

As our Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering a dedicated programme of geriatric care, assuming responsibility for patients on Elderly Medicine wards with daily reviews and full consultant ward rounds. You will regularly review our patients proactively, coordinate care with allied specialties, and engage in multi-disciplinary meetings to direct patient care.

You will also provide specialist opinions to other hospital specialties as part of the frailty liaison service, participate in outpatient clinics supporting patient care within Geriatric Medicine in line with national standards and Care Quality Commission requirements, actively participate in developing innovative approaches to acute elderly care, and develop older people’s acute service pathways and outpatient clinics to facilitate the further development of our Frailty Assessment Unit. Additionally, you will actively participate in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 serving a population of over a million people.

We work together, in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, improve the health and wellbeing of our patients compassionately, and provide a respectful, vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate, and build careers.

We want to be the best and to achieve this, we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important, but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic, we want you to join us.

We offer a good working environment with flexible working opportunities and the chance to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Job responsibilities

Are you dedicated, experienced, and patient-focused? Then we want to hear from you!

Please see the attached JD’s for further details of these exciting roles.

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Person specification

Qualifications (Essential criteria)

• MBBS or Equivalent
• MRCP
• Entry on Specialist Register for geriatric and general medicine

Experience and Knowledge (Essential criteria)

• Thorough and broad experience in specialty
• Able to take full and independent responsibility for delivering service without direct supervision.

Research/Audit Experience (Essential criteria)

• Knowledge of the principles of research/audit and ability to interpret and apply clinical research.

Research/Audit Experience (Desirable criteria)

• Recent published clinical research

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Evidence of thorough and broad training and experience in the specialty.
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency and elective within the specialty
• Expertise in a subspecialty
• Good knowledge of the structures and culture of the NHS, roles, responsibilities, and relationships across the MDT and the multi-professional team

Management Experience

Essential

• Experience of audit management

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors, and other staff
• Ability to teach clinical skills

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