Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-1124SDOG
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/ Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor
Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 Per Annum/ Pro Rata
Contract Length: 12 Months Fixed Term
We are recruiting for a Orthogeriatric Specialty Doctor who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a dynamic Specialty Doctor to work alongside our Orthogeriatric team in Trauma and Orthopaedics at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The Orthogeriatric team provide comprehensive care for all hip fracture and NAFF patients.
This post is fixed term for 12 Months with no oncall commitments.
We treat around 360 hip fracture patients per year, 40-50 other femoral fracture (distal and shaft) patients and 30-40 peri-prosthetic femur fracture patients. At any one time there are approximately 30-35 his and NAFF patients under our care.
We have accelerated hip pathway and aim to follow NICE guidelines, BPT and GIRFT pathways to continuously improve patient care. Our aim is to optimise achievement of best practice tariff providing high quality and safe care.
the Orthogeriatric team has one Consultant and four junior doctors. the team is supported by 14 Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons, 5 specialist trainees and 7 SAS doctors. Currently we have two full time qualifies trauma-coordinators.
We will actively support doctors progressing through the Portfolio pathway to get specialist registration and full time substantive orthogeriatric consultant.
Working for our organisation
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.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
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.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work alongside orthogeriatric consultant and provide direct input to patients admitted under the hip fracture pathway and patients with NAFF fractures.
- Improve pre-operative optimisation, lead the perioperative medical management of fractured-femur, peri prosthetic fracture and NAFF patients and to coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.
- Provide oversite and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team (4 doctors) and contribute towards the teaching and training.
- Participate in the daily trauma meetings, daily MDT meetings, weekly handover meeting and monthly hip fracture/NAFF meetings to improve care in line with NICE/BPT/NAFF/GIRFT guidelines
- Participate and attend the monthly audit and clinical governance meetings.
- Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintenance of continuing professional development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with a License to Practice
- Medical Degree MBBS (or Equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate membership (MRCP) with at least one year of post-membership experience, preferably in the UK
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to offer clinical opinion on a range of problems in frail elderly patient with musculoskeletal injuries.
- Acknowledged experience in General Internal/Geriatric medicine.
- Completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in general or Geriatric Medicine or as a fixed term specialty trainee in general or Geriatrics Medicine; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aga Carpenter
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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