Consultant Physician in Stroke / Acute Medicine

Job overview

The Care of the Elderly department at Barnsley Hospital NHS FT provides outstanding geriatric services to 4 medical wards including our Acute Stroke Unit and Acute Frailty areas.

We have a very innovative and proactive frailty team who have developed an Electronic Geriatric Assessment tool, as well as a Frailty SDEC area and front door frailty service in the Emergency department and CDU.

The department has an outpatient area (Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit) with a long tradition of providing multidisciplinary care for patients with falls, incontinence and Parkinsons disease. Besides Parkinsons and Falls clinics. We also run tilt table, syncope, continence, general internal medicine and geriatric medicine clinics.

We have a specialist continence team, falls prevention team, dementia nurse specialist, dementia and delirium lead, and there will be a scope for cooperation with the successful candidate to improve those services.

The department also has a vibrant and developing Integrated Care Service which provides a Virtual Frailty Ward service (step up from community and step down from hospital) in conjunction with community nursing colleagues, as well as thirty intermediate care and rehabilitation beds in the Acorn Unit.

Main duties of the job

Strengthening the delivery of a high-quality acute stroke medicine service across Barnsley.

Maintaining high quality stroke services with a commitment to the ICS.

Providing leadership and expertise in the management of acute stroke in the emergency pathway.

Developing new, high quality, patient centred stroke services.

Liaising and developing working policies with relevant hospital departments, local General Practitioners, nurses and paramedical staff.

Developing innovative practices in clinical patient management, focusing on high quality care and emphasis on community management where appropriate.

Maintaining close links with colleagues on all sites.

Providing a 7-day service with colleagues

Teaching and training undergraduates as well as postgraduate doctors

Quality assurance of the service and individual practice

Developing with colleagues, an integrated stroke service across the Barnsley health economy.

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification for this post can be found under the supporting documents section.

The job description and person specification for this post can be found under the supporting documents section.