Locum Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Orthogeriatrics
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Job overview
Barts Health NHs Trust Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Orthogeriatrics 10 PAs Whipps Cross Hospital
Whipps Cross University Hospital, part of the Barts Health NHS Trust Group is looking for two full time Consultant Geriatrician, to join our Older People’s Services (OPS) team based predominantly on the Whipps Cross Hospital site.
These posts offers an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric medicine.
Main duties of the job
These posts offers an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric medicine.
As part of the development of Whipps Cross as a centre for frailty, Whipps Cross Hospital in 2021 became a centre of excellence for fragility fracture care, leading to an expansion in the workforce required to revolutionise the care for these patients and other orthopaedic patients with fragility fractures.
These post offers a unique opportunity to participate in the redevelopment of the Hospital itself as well as the services we provide as Whipps Cross looks forward to the building of a new Hospital and care pathways to provide truly gold standard care to our frail elderly patients.
You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist Registrar or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
These posts offers an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric medicine.
As part of the development of Whipps Cross as a centre for frailty, Whipps Cross Hospital in 2021 became a centre of excellence for fragility fracture care, leading to an expansion in the workforce required to revolutionise the care for these patients and other orthopaedic patients with fragility fractures.
These post offers a unique opportunity to participate in the redevelopment of the Hospital itself as well as the services we provide as Whipps Cross looks forward to the building of a new Hospital and care pathways to provide truly gold standard care to our frail elderly patients.
You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist Registrar or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.