Consultant Geriatrician

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

Consultant Geriatrician within geriatric medicine,

To provide clinical leadership, diagnosis, management and treatment for patients with a broad spectrum of complex geriatric care needs; act as an expert resource for medical, nursing and other health care professionals across the Trust footprint; and be an active champion of high quality frailty and older persons care both locally and across the region.

The post holder will complement and develop existing services through the provision of specialist knowledge & expertise in older person services. The post holder is therefore required to have full registration with the General Medical Council & a valid licence to practice and be on the specialist register for Geriatric Medicine (CESR) or be within 6 months of CCT or equivalent at the time of interview.

The Department

Currently our team includes the frailty team based on AMU, and consultants working across Medicine, orthopaedics and vascular, with a proposal currently in development to bring the team into the medical division. If you would like to work in a dynamic, caring, inclusive and forward-thinking environment where innovation is welcomed, then we would welcome your application.

The emergency department at The Royal Oldham Hospital currently provides care for approximately 120,000 attendances per year. Of these attendances the over 65-75’s and over 75’s age groups account for 7562 and 12000 attendances respectively.

Main duties of the job

The Trust is committed to an on-going process of improving the way services for older people are provided. Since older people have specific healthcare needs, methods of delivering care should be tailored to meet these. It is recognised that the development of these services is best lead by specialist clinicians and this responsibility comprises a key aspect of this job.

• The post holder will continue to provide established inpatient care for older people as well as work towards the development of new and innovative geriatric services.
• They will be encouraged to contribute their own vision for service improvement and how best they can work with the trust to help deliver this.
• Equally as important is the expansion of effective and appropriate community services, working as part of the team to provide joined up needs-based care for older people is a key part of this role.
• The trust is currently working towards a sustainable virtual ward model across several specialties, of which frailty is one, – you will be expected to identify suitable patients, devise robust management plans and liaise with the dedicated frailty team to make the frailty virtual ward a success.
• You will help lead a motivated team to ensure that the best standard of care is provided to older people within the trust including a commitment to the development of specialist needs based services across a range of interfaces

Working for our organisation

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.