Care of the Elderly Consultant with a Specialty Interest in Frailty

Job overview

Are you someone who has in interest in acute medicine and frailty where you want to be there to make a difference to your patients and to work in a dynamic and successful front door Frailty and Acute Medicine service, while influencing the future of frailty and acute services in the region? This is a rare opportunity to help deliver our vision for an integrated system-wide approach to Frailty and Acute Medicine with one of Cheshire & Merseyside’s District General Hospital.

East Cheshire NHS Trust strives to be one of the best performing frailty services, the service provides diagnosis, treatment, and facilitates early discharge of frail patients and provides interface with frailty virtual ward. The virtual ward has a dedicated team supporting the Frailty team in both the Emergency Department and across all the acute medical wards.

The Frailty team is a multi-disciplinary team based in the Emergency Department and the trust is currently looking to create and run an Acute Frailty Assessment unit delivering same day emergency care for patients with frailty as part of the frailty approach across the hospital. The successful candidate will support the implementation of the Frailty SDEC alongside the clinical and operational teams. This is a new initiative for East Cheshire Hospital to support the aging population of Eastern Cheshire.

Hours per week: 10 PA's

Main duties of the job

• Provide a high quality, safe and compassionate care to the acutely ill medical patients admitted to our hospital and provide them with the best possible experience during their admission.
• Active participation in Trust Clinical Governance activities, including audit, mortality review and appraisal process. The appointee will ensure data collection and processing undertaken is consistently accurate, timely and complies with the Trust Data Quality Policy and Information Governance procedures.
• Teaching, training and supervision of doctors, nurses and students in order to promote a positive and supportive atmosphere.
• Responsible for keeping a record of Continuous Professional Development (CPD), including Trust Mandatory training process.
• Will be responsible for engaging in regular appraisal processes for revalidation
• The provision of a first-class clinical service.
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research.
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust's procedures and operating policies
• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust's service plan
• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the speciality, the Care Group of the Trus

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification located under the Supporting documents heading to read more about the advertised role.

Please read the attached Applicant Pack prior to completing your application form to find out more information.

As part of making your application we encourage you to review the Trusts Careers webpage www.careersateastcheshire.nhs.uk for more information about working for East Cheshire NHS Trust.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).

Applicants are advised to apply early as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date should we receive a large number of applications.

We look forward to receiving your application.