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Specialty Doctor Elderly Care Medicine (12 month post)

Division: Unplanned and Integrated Care

Salary: £52,530 - £82,400 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date:  TBC

We are recruiting for a Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the  Best of Care by the Best People  and have the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff. 

The post holder will work directly with the existing team of 14 Consultant Physicians in Acute Frailty who currently provide a wide range of hospital and community based services including Acute Frailty services as well as running specialist clinics for patients with Parkinson’s disease, TIAs, falls and general medical conditions. We have recently started a Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly as part of Frailty- Same day Emergency Care (F-SDEC). Inpatient elderly care wards include 5 acute elderly care wards and an established purpose built Acute Frailty Unit with10 Assessment beds, 22 short stay beds and 2 clinic rooms.. We have opened a 22 bedded Acute Unit based in a Community Hospital in Sheppey.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will join a group of 10 Specialist grade doctors (6 in post) and are expected to participate in inpatient ward rounds on a designated inpatient unit, supervised by a named consultant. The Specialist Grades rotate in 4 months planned blocks to allow gaining experience in a range of Units within the department with opportunity to learn from a number of established consultants within the department.

They need to supervise postgraduate doctors and teach them during the ward round. He/she will be able to independently see patients, formulate appropriate management plans and liaise with the consultant as and when needed. They would be actively encouraged to attend a range of subspecialty clinics (Falls, Movement Disorder, Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly and General Frailty Clinics) as well as in a rostered way, gain Orthogeriatrics and Community Geriatrics experience.

The job covers 10 PA’s including 9 clinical activities and 1 supporting
activities and CPD. There is an opportunity to join a weekend on call Rota (0900-1700) to cover the planned Community Unit, participating in this will enhance the total no. of PA’s paid for. In addition, for suitably qualified and experienced candidates the Trust encourages taking up leadership roles 0.25 – 0.5 PA’s.

Working for our organisation

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.