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Job overview

We are looking to appoint one new Consultant Geriatrician to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team.  This job is a split rotational post predominantly involving work with the Urgent Community Response Service (hospital at home virtual ward and into care homes) and with some input into the acute elderly medicine department at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. This is a 10 PA consultant post in Elderly Care Medicine. As a forward thinking and adaptable department, we would welcome applications from candidates wishing to work less than full time. The post will include participation in the Elderly Care Physician on call rota at approximately 1:16.

The post holder will work alongside another both in hospital teams while covering an acute medical ward and the multidisciplinary UCR team while covering the virtual ward.  This job allows the applicant to work alongside all our consultants in both RBH and BHFT and alongside both inpatient and outpatient multidisciplinary teams.

The simulation date is the 6th September 2024 and the Interview date is 18th September 2024.

Main duties of the job

We post holder will be expected to:

To work with our Urgent Community Response Virtual Ward supporting the daily huddles, weekly ward rounds and reviewing patients in their own homes when needed.

Support and develop the UCR team; by supporting training of nurses & therapists as well as providing clinical supervision.

Provide, with colleagues, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment service for frail older patients admitted under the care of the Elderly Care team.

Manage the patients on an acute Elderly Care ward, working closely with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team and providing consultant support to the medical team.

Provide on-call cover for the Elderly Care Physician (ECPOD) on call on a 1 in 16 rota. On-call is Category A with 3% on-call intensity supplement. Specific fixed weekday to be confirmed.

Prospective cover for each other’s annual leave will be shared equally between the consultant team.

Active participation in monthly clinical governance meetings within the department.

Participation and involvement in meetings and other business in the elderly care service.

Responsibility for the educational supervision of one trainee and clinical supervision of one trainee.

Development of sub-specialty interests in community geriatrics with a focus on improving services within the virtual ward

Working for our organisation

The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1^st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire, an area extending from Newbury in the west to Henley-on-Thames in the east, and including Wokingham and parts of Hampshire to the south and parts of Oxfordshire to the north. The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading’s biggest employer: 

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.