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Locum Consultant in Care of the Elderly
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9218-25-0235 |
Summary
We are looking for a confident, flexible and adaptable person who thrives on challenges and variety. They should be able to cope with prioritising, managing a busy workload and working with indirect supervision, asking for guidance and support as required. The appointee will be skilled in working as part of a dynamic community multi-disciplinary team, able to communicate with a wide range of patient groups and colleagues. This strategy includes the following components: Acute frailty services includes 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, peri operative 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 virtual ward. Expansion of Falls and Bone Health services including fracture liaison service, joint osteoporosis services, multidisciplinary falls clinic. There is commitment to the General Internal Medicine Consultant on-call rota (1 in 16).You will be expected to contribute to the education and training of resident doctors and there will also be opportunities to contribute to teaching medical students from Warwick Medical School. The