Locum Consultant in Care of the Elderly

Job overview

We are looking for a consultant Geriatrician colleague to join our team. This is a full-time Consultant Geriatrician post within the department of Care of the Elderly (COTE) at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. We welcome applicants who wish to consider job sharing or part-time. The post will work in an integrated fashion with existing Consultant staff within the department of Care of the Elderly (COTE) to deliver an expansion of services for older people and support major new service developments for older people at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby and University Hospital, Coventry. There are various opportunities to pursue sub-specialty interest and to develop new services including Community Geriatric services, Care for Elderly Major Trauma patients, Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service, Ambulatory and Hot clinics, Surgical liaison services and Onco-geriatric service. There are also opportunities to work together with other specialities to set up services such as joint Heart Failure services, movement disorder clinic and Fracture Liaison service.

Main duties of the job

This is a full-time post (10 PA) within the department of the Care of the Elderly at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. It is expected that appointees will have an in-patient bed base (12 patients), contribute to out-patient services (projected to be 10 patients with support from registrar) and be encouraged to develop a subspecialty interest. A 24 bed-ward is expected to be covered by a registrar and 2 resident doctors. We welcome applications from those who would like to be considered for job sharing or less than full-time working. There are also additional Pas available depending on job planning.

You will be expected to contribute to the education and training of junior doctors and there will also be opportunities to contribute to the teaching of medical students from Warwick Medical School. The department is currently pursuing the development of a major new strategy to develop and deliver Geriatric medicine services across Coventry and Rugby.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The department is currently pursuing the development of a major new strategy to develop and deliver Geriatric medicine services across Coventry and Rugby.

This strategy includes the following components:

• Acute frailty services – including front door frailty service, rapid access clinics, and ambulatory care, short stay assessment services.
• Provision of geriatric, medical input to major trauma patients who are frail with multiple co morbidities.
• Surgical Liaison Service – including pre op assessment to optimise medical issues for elective operation patients, perioperative liaison ward round for in-patients on surgical wards.
• Development of community services – including care home input and other support to primary care services. E.g., development of a virtual ward.
• Expansion of Falls and Bone Health services – including fracture liaison service, joint osteoporosis services, multidisciplinary falls clinic.

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.