Consultant in Medicine for the Elderly & Stroke Medicine with special interest in Acute Frailty

NHS Lothian

Consultant in Medicine for the Elderly & Stroke Medicine with special interest in Acute Frailty

Reference - 193876

Closing Date - 24/09/2024

NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once CESR is awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.  

The department of Medicine of the Elderly, Western General Hospital Edinburgh, wish to appoint a consultant geriatrician with a special interest in acute frailty.

This is an exciting opportunity for applicants with an interest in acute frailty to work alongside an enthusiastic, supportive and motivated team of geriatricians to continue to develop and provide an innovative acute frailty service. The service will continue its commitment to improve the quality of care for older frail people and provide CGA within a well established and dynamic MDT.

There may be the opportunity for job planned time to support the acute frailty services in emergency areas of the hospital and help to develop a more seamless and equitable service.

Medicine for the Elderly activity will include in-patient care for frail older people, contribution to the assessment and management of older people in the acute assessment frailty unit, and contribution to the weekday (Monday Thursday) and weekend consultant on call rota for Medicine for the Elderly at the Western General Hospital. There is opportunity to have a dedicated outpatient clinic. There is some flexibility within job plan which can be tailored to the interest of applicants.

The department has an excellent reputation for education and training, quality improvement and clinical research, and non-clinical interests will be encouraged. 

The successful candidate will contribute to service planning; delivery of undergraduate teaching; supervision of junior doctors; clinical governance and quality improvement.

For newly appointment consultants there is the opportunity of mentorship offered by existing experienced and supportive consultant geriatricians.

The post is for a substantive Consultant in Medicine for the Elderly & Stroke Medicine and will be for up to 10 PAs, of which 1PAs will be to support the out of hours rota.

We welcome all applications from interested candidate including those who wish to work LTFT.

More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.

For an informal discussion please contact Dr Elizabeth Keane, Clinical Director, Medicine for the Elderly and Stroke, via Deborah Cherry on / Deborah.cherry@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk. 

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We cannot accept CVs as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted.  Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally. 

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

Interview Date: 15/10/2024