Locum Consultant in Elderly Care Medicine

at  Wrightington Wigan Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Key Results from Postholder The Ageing and Complex Medicine Directorate currently has six substantive Consultants, one Associate Specialist and three Specialist Registrars. Following the recruitment, the applicant will form a team of 6 consultants and join the existing team contributing expertise in Acute Comprehensive Geriatric Medicine and sub sub-specialties including Stroke Medicine, Ortho Geriatrics and Frailty Services. There are 81 acute Care of Elderly beds under the directorate (24 Orthogeriatric beds, 22 stroke unit beds, 42 Acute geriatric). The Consultants are supported by one Associate Specialist, three SpRs, 6 CMT/ GPST and 6 FY doctors.
There are specialist nurses in Stroke Medicine, Parkinsons disease and Dementia services. In addition to the General Care of Elderly clinics there are Specialist clinics dedicated to Stroke, TIA, Falls, Parkinsons disease and Dementia. There is a one stop TIA clinic with same day Carotid Doppler scanning, CT/MR Scan service with direct access to the vascular team led by three senior clinicians. The Elderly care team also provides service in the community.
There are regular MDT meetings, community clinics/visits and Care home visits. The emphasis is on proactive case management including Advance care planning and providing support to the community team, consisting of Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Community matrons. WWL is a trauma centre which offers comprehensive trauma and Orthopaedic services including Upper limbs (hand, wrist, shoulder and elbow) and Lower limbs (pelvis, hip, knee, ankle and foot). The majority of acute trauma work takes place at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary (RAEI) in Wigan.
Trauma ward- Aspull ward has 28 beds including 10 ortho-geriatric beds

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