Consultant Elderly Care Physician, Acute Frailty - Conquest

Job overview

Consultant Geriatrician / Frailty

East Sussex Healthcare NHS trust are seeking a vibrant and enthusiastic individual to join our Elderly Care team.  This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the expansion of the Acute Frailty Service.  Following a significant investment to expand our Acute Frailty Services on both acute hospital sites, we are appointing a new consultant to provide specialist care to older people living with frailty, referred to our Elderly Care team of 11 consultants across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will work with consultant colleagues and the Acute Frailty Team to provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services for local residents.  The Individual appointee will be based at Conquest Hospital, but this may be subject to change depending on service need.

Individual appointees should have been fully trained and accredited in all aspects of Elderly Care, with special interests in Frailty and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, which will complement the other two Consultant members of the Service and support the continuing development of Frailty in East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

All applicants must have a full GMC registration with a licence to practise.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.  AAC date to be confirmed.

If you have any questions about position, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Applicants should be a holder of Certificate of Completion of Training or be within six months of the award of CCT by the date of the interview or the equivalent (CESR) which is at the time of applying,  on the GMC Specialist Register.