Job summary
Applications are invited for the post of Consultant in Older Peoples Services at Colchester Hospital and Clacton Hospital. This is a 1 year fixed term post in the first instance with the view to make permanent after a year. The appointee will join 5 other consultants in elderly medicine who provide a comprehensive service for residents of Northeast Essex as part of ESNEFT.
It is expected that the new appointee will participate in the development of the Frailty service for elderly patients in Northeast Essex. Other subspecialty interests are also welcome. The key elements of the role include inpatient care, frailty work, on call acute care as well as teaching and training junior medical staff.
Our frailty service is provided by "community at the front door", in reaching to the emergency department. The Frailty service is predominantly outpatient based service for provision of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of frail elderly patient.. The Frailty Service is staffed by a nurse consultant, middle grade Dr, GP trainee, nurse practitioners, senior nurse, Occupational therapist, Physiotherapist, Pharmacist and healthcare assistant.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care;
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines;
- Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the Emergency Department (ED);
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care;
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team;
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility;
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained;
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated;
- Ensure that junior doctors training confirms to College requirements; and
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trust's agree policy
About us
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Take part in the acute medical intake working. Provide on-going medical supervision for those patients admitted under his/her care following the acute take. There are four Older Peoples Services wards (excluding the stroke ward, orthogeriatrics and EAU); A ward-based system for junior doctors and patients currently operates so patients admitted under one consultant are often transferred to the care of another once they move off EAU and onto another ward. The appointee will be supported by an SPR (shared with one other consultant) and a foundation doctor/ CMT/ GP trainee doctor. He/ She will be responsible for managing in- patients on their allocated ward.
- Work closely with the other consultants in Older Peoples Services to share in the care of patients in all aspects of care including acute care, rehabilitation;
- Liaise with consultants within the department on the development and implementation of protocols and guidelines for the management of elderly patients and the development of clinical audit;
- Provide a consultant advisory service to colleagues in other specialties in the trust as well as those in the mental health trust;
- Participate in the Postgraduate and Undergraduate teaching programmes, and teaching of other health professionals, within the department;
- Participate in the appraisal and assessment of junior medical colleagues, as delegated by the Unit Training Director; and
- Participate in teaching of SpRs
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Full registration with the General Medical Council
- Entry onto the Specialist Register or a UK SpR within 6 months of CCT date at interview
- MRCP or equivalent
- Experience of teaching postgraduate, undergraduate and Support Service professionals
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a full range of acute medical emergencies, rehabilitation and intermediate care
- At least 4 years at SpR level (or equivalent)
- Ability to build, lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to manage risk and end of line decisions
Desirable
- Post graduate degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc
- Entry onto the Specialist Register in G(I)M & Geriatric Medicine
- Evidence of work submitted for Peer review
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Attendance at teaching course
- Attendance at management course
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL