Job summaryThe Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.
Main duties of the jobBHH Services
The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the early identification and comprehensive geriatric assessment of frail older adults arriving at the hospital front door. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to develop the acute frailty pathway at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, as well as exciting opportunities to be involved in collaborating with the wider BSOL integrated system to explore alternatives to acute hospital attendance for older adults living with frailty.
The opportunity to develop a community service with In-Reach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community-based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service -- there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one of the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT Falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.
Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for frail older adults, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.
We have consultant led MDT Falls, MDT Parkinsons, Osteoporosis and General Geriatrics clinics.
About usUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilitiesJob plan: PAs for direct patient care & SPAs to support revalidation activities including CPD & educational supervision/teaching. Must possess MRCP or equivalent; be on the Specialist Register in Geriatric & General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric & General Medicine. Applicants must be entered onto the GMC register.
Clinical Care- Care of inpatients or older adults referred to the front door frailty teams
- Administrative duties related to patient care
- Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.
- Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.
- Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy.
- To help the department and Trust in emergencies.
Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty
Management, Supervisory, Teaching, Training Responsibilities- All consultants in the department are managerially accountable through the Clinical Service Leads to the CDG Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate.
- Candidates are required to hold CCT or equivalent in Geriatric Medicine.
- The successful candidates will provide necessary educational and clinical supervision for resident doctors and other health professionals working in their team. In addition, participation in the departmental and Trust wide teaching programmes for the relevant resident medical staff and members of the multidisciplinary teams is expected
Research and Development- Consultants are key members of the Directorate Team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient's experience.
- To support the Clinical Service Leads in policy and strategy development as a senior member of the Directorate Management Team.
- To contribute to the leadership and development of Services under the direction of the Clinical Service Leads and CDG Medical Director and in line with the Trusts business plans.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- MRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
