# Specialty Doctor in Elderly care and Rehabilitation

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Wokingham
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £63,696 - £102,689 pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 6 sessions per week (Monday, Tuesday and Friday (flexibility required))
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05T10:20:44.828Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Berkshire/Wokingham/Royal_Berkshire_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Elderly_Care_Community/Elderly_Care_Community-v8193798
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This post is a 6PA less-than-full-time substantive post for a Specialty Doctor in Elderly care Medicine and Rehabilitation, starting October'26. This post is sought to provide inpatient and community-based care for patients with long term conditions based at Wokingham Community Hospital

### Main duties of the job

The Specialty doctor will be expected to attend consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings where patient rehabilitation progress is reviewed, and discharge plans are made. The post holder will be directly involved in communication with patients and relatives and able to offer advice to health and social care colleagues regarding rehabilitation on the wards.

Expectation to make every effort that patients are enabled to reach their rehabilitation goals and work with colleagues to ensure that the care to patients is in accordance with the NSF for Older People and other relevant guidance on good practice

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification

If you'd like to discuss this post or arrange a visit please contact Dr Dr Yetunde Oiku, Consultant Geriatrician

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Clinical Knowledge

**Essential**

- Evidence of experience in acute medical specialties, with experience of managing patients on unselected medical tak

**Desirable**

- Specific management of geriatric syndromes including Dementia

### Audit Management & IT

**Essential**

- Ability to work within clinical governance guidelines
- Undertake audits and present data as required.
- Good IT skills, use of patient and hospital database

**Desirable**

- Completion of Quality Improvement Project

### Professional Qualifications

**Essential**

- Full registration with the GMC/eligible for registration

**Desirable**

- Advanced Life Support certificate
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent

### Clinical Experience & Skills

**Essential**

- Experience in General and Geriatric Medicine
- Evidence of achievement of FY1&2 competencies or able to demonstrate achievement of the necessary equivalent competencies

**Desirable**

- Minimum 1 year NHS experience

## Documents

- [spec dr ps (pdf, 80.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10498792)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 139.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=603)
- [relocation policy (pdf, 572.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1764)
- [behaviours framework 2022 (pdf, 2.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2970)
- [probation policy & procedure (pdf, 559.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1640)
- [leadership behaviours framework (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2718)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 800.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10514523)

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