Job overview
The Eldercare and Stroke team are seeking a Specialist Doctor to join the team and support the management of Acute Frailty, Orthogeriatric, Parkinsons’ and Eldercare inpatients at Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in the management ofAcute Frailty, Orthogeriatric, Parkinsons’ and Eldercare inpatients at Royal Cornwall Hospital
To provide duties including outpatient and inpatient care and advice and guidance to other professionals.
To share with colleagues’ responsibility for the day-to-day management of Eldercare patients (including but not exclusively; those with Femoral fractures), in line with national and local clinical guidelines.
Teaching and training of junior staff, medical students, and Allied Health Professionals.
To have responsibility for ensuring active participation in continuing medical education (CME).
To actively participate in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and audit.
To attend meetings as appropriate.
Fulfill duties of weekly timetable, potentially including out of hours or weekends.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Work health assessments
- Criminal record check standards
- Right to work checks
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- We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
- Agency interest will not be considered until this advert has closed.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
Disposition
Essential
- Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC Registration with a Full licence to practice
Practical and Intellectual skills
Essential
- Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences, ie, knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients: employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior practitioner as agreed within local clinical governance frameworks.
- Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self- management.
- Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent, ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
- Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
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This advert is for Specialist Doctor in Eldercare & Stroke with Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in Truro, South West, England. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Geriatric Medicine role. The advertised salary is £104,401 - £115,341 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 12 Jul 2026.
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