NHS
Consultant Geriatrician
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Job Description
- Req#: C0020-23-1068
- MRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview.
- MRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview.
Job summary
The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people on four sites: Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Solihull Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.
The speciality wishes to recruit additional Consultant Geriatricians at all four hospitals: these are a combination of new and replacement posts. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with an interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatrics and surgical liaison), movement disorders and acute geriatrics. Further description of the specific services and areas for development are detailed in the Job Description.
Please note, interviews will be scheduled to take place within 1 - 2 weeks of the advert closing.
Main duties of the job
CLINICAL CARE
Care of inpatients
Administrative duties related to patient care
Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.
Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.
Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.
Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy.
To help the department and Trust in emergencies.
Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Date posted
21 June 2023
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£88,364 to £119,133 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
5598
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB)
Services unique to QEHB site include:
*Further development of the peri-operative geriatrics service aiding specialist input into emergency general surgical and silver major trauma patients. An additional role will be establishing a geriatrician in the newly formed multi-disciplinary Extended Post-operative Care Units and expansion of the peri-operative service to tertiary surgical specialities such as cardiothoracics and neurosurgery.
*Expansion of the complex regional Parkinson's disease clinic with links to the neurosciences and neurosurgical departments for interventions such as Deep Brain Stimulation.
*Increasing development of academic geriatric medicine, linked to the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham. Regular NIHR academic clinical fellows and lecturers, with an increasing portfolio of investigator led studies, focussing on biological mechanisms of ageing, multi-morbidity and sarcopenia.
*Support to inpatients at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Norman Power Centre providing specialist geriatric expertise to the city's population. Opportunities at West Heath and Mosely Hall Hospital include stroke and trauma rehabilitation whilst the focus at Norman Power Unit is to support the best route out of hospital for patients who require a more appropriate care setting whilst awaiting the next stage in their care.
*Unique opportunity to be involved in the expansion of OPAL+, a collaborative partnership between the OPAL team at QEHB and the West Midlands Ambulance Service. The service launched in March 2020 and since then crews have used video technology to avoid unnecessary transfers to hospitals. OPAL+ has close links to the Early Intervention and Community Palliative Care Teams and is looking forward to joint working with the Community Mental Health Team in the near future.
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)
Services unique to BHH site include:
*The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people's assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.
*The opportunity to develop a community service with inreach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
*Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatrics service -- there is a centralised fracture neck of femur service for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.
Good Hope Hospital
Services unique to Good Hope Hospital include:-
*Opportunity to further develop interface/acute geriatric medicine services at the site which have recently undergone a significant expansion. The OPAL multidisciplinary model is now firmly embedded at the Good Hope site, with excellent links now built between OPAL and community teams within Birmingham and South Staffordshire. Developments currently planned include establishing a virtual link between the OPAL team and local intermediate care centres, developing the use of technology to support patients within these centres, and building links with GPs to provide enhanced support to frail patients in the community.
*Community wards based on the Good Hope site provide an excellent opportunity for consultants wishing to develop links between acute and community wards, and build further relationships with community partners and drive forward the progress made already with early supported discharge pathways.
*Opportunity to lead Parkinson's disease service, developing and expanding the service available to patients with Parkinson's disease on this site
Job responsibilities
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB)
Services unique to QEHB site include:
*Further development of the peri-operative geriatrics service aiding specialist input into emergency general surgical and silver major trauma patients. An additional role will be establishing a geriatrician in the newly formed multi-disciplinary Extended Post-operative Care Units and expansion of the peri-operative service to tertiary surgical specialities such as cardiothoracics and neurosurgery.
*Expansion of the complex regional Parkinson's disease clinic with links to the neurosciences and neurosurgical departments for interventions such as Deep Brain Stimulation.
*Increasing development of academic geriatric medicine, linked to the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham. Regular NIHR academic clinical fellows and lecturers, with an increasing portfolio of investigator led studies, focussing on biological mechanisms of ageing, multi-morbidity and sarcopenia.
*Support to inpatients at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Norman Power Centre providing specialist geriatric expertise to the city's population. Opportunities at West Heath and Mosely Hall Hospital include stroke and trauma rehabilitation whilst the focus at Norman Power Unit is to support the best route out of hospital for patients who require a more appropriate care setting whilst awaiting the next stage in their care.
*Unique opportunity to be involved in the expansion of OPAL+, a collaborative partnership between the OPAL team at QEHB and the West Midlands Ambulance Service. The service launched in March 2020 and since then crews have used video technology to avoid unnecessary transfers to hospitals. OPAL+ has close links to the Early Intervention and Community Palliative Care Teams and is looking forward to joint working with the Community Mental Health Team in the near future.
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)
Services unique to BHH site include:
*The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people's assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.
*The opportunity to develop a community service with inreach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
*Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatrics service -- there is a centralised fracture neck of femur service for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.
Good Hope Hospital
Services unique to Good Hope Hospital include:-
*Opportunity to further develop interface/acute geriatric medicine services at the site which have recently undergone a significant expansion. The OPAL multidisciplinary model is now firmly embedded at the Good Hope site, with excellent links now built between OPAL and community teams within Birmingham and South Staffordshire. Developments currently planned include establishing a virtual link between the OPAL team and local intermediate care centres, developing the use of technology to support patients within these centres, and building links with GPs to provide enhanced support to frail patients in the community.
*Community wards based on the Good Hope site provide an excellent opportunity for consultants wishing to develop links between acute and community wards, and build further relationships with community partners and drive forward the progress made already with early supported discharge pathways.
*Opportunity to lead Parkinson's disease service, developing and expanding the service available to patients with Parkinson's disease on this site
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
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Certificate of Sponsorship
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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Employer's website
https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Employer's website
https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)
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