Consultant in Medicine for Older People & Stroke Medicine
| Posting date: | 10 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £83,945.00 to £95,275.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £83945.00 - £95275.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, HA1 3UJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9337-24-0822 |
Summary
6 Months in Geriatric Medicine The post holder will be responsible for 1/3 of an elderly care ward working with 2 other consultant colleagues to provide internal cover for 34 inpatients. The post holder will have one outpatient clinic per fortnight and do 1 alternate afternoon a week covering the acute frailty service (working with a team of nurses and therapists in ED and SDEC to provide early focused CGA and multidisciplinary discharge planning). There is an expectation that the post holder will participate in general medical on-call rota 1:13 Friday-Sunday (for which 1 PA is allocated). Weekends are 8-5 or 9-9 shifts post-taking new patients or doing ward rounds on the AMU wards. Regular involvement in clinical governance (3 monthly meeting), morbidity & mortality reviews, service development activity, audit and teaching will be expected. The appointee will provide clinical supervision to junior doctors rotating to the department and will be the educational supervisor for up to 3 trainees. There is an active educational programme with a weekly departmental meeting, to which the post holder is expected to attend and contribute.