Specialist Grade - Elderly Care

at  University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

This post will be mainly based at County Hospital (Ward 15) and provide senior medical cover and clinical leadership within Elderly Care, working with a team of Consultant Geriatricians. There will be rotations between County Hospital and Royal Stoke Hospital.
County Hospital which is part of UHNM has one elderly care ward in addition to AMU and general medical wards. County Hospital has an Emergency Department (ED) that operates from 08:00-22:00hours. It provides excellent diagnostic and outpatient and surgical services.
Ward 15 at County Hospital is a purpose-built elderly care ward with 28 beds and currently has one substantive Geriatrician and a locum consultant, supported by a team of training and non-training doctors and advanced clinical practitioners. The ward is also supported by an MDT team comprising physiotherapists, occupational therapists, mental health and social teams.
There is a daily consultant-led ward MDT board round, followed by a ward round and also once weekly MDT meeting.
County Hospital also has a Frailty Front Door team comprising of advanced clinical practitioners who assess frail patients in the ED and facilitate discharge if appropriate.
There will be opportunity for the post holder to undertake sessions or rotate to the Royal Stoke site, as well as opportunities for interested and suitable candidates to take part in acute medical on calls at County Hospital.
Geriatric Medicine at UHNM ( Royal Stoke & County Hospitals)
The Consultants in Geriatric Medicine provide services for Older People within the UHNM.
Royal Stoke is the main site, where there are 5 acute Elderly Care wards and a Frail Elderly Assessment Unit (FEAU) and one Elderly Care ward at County Hospital.
Acute Geriatric Medicine
At Royal Stoke, patients who meet the frail elderly criteria are transferred from the ED to FEAU – a 29-bedded unit. Patients are reviewed on the same day or following morning by a Consultant Geriatrician on a post-take ward round.
FEAU is staffed with consultants and junior doctors from Elderly Care from 08:00hours to 20:00hours and covered by the roving medical registrar and a medical SHO outside of these hours. We also accept patients directly from GPs, or from the Community Single Point of Care and aim to ensure that FEAU is only accepting patients who meet our frail elderly admission criteria. Approximately 25% of the patients seen in our Frail Elderly Assessment Unit are discharged from FEAU and the remainder are transferred to one of the Elderly Care wards (123, 76A,76B, 78 and 81).
County Hospital has one Elderly Care ward (Ward 15). Patients are transferred to Ward 15 from AMU. The ward has 1 substantive consultant, 1 specialty doctor, 5 trainee doctors and 1 ANP.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
The job plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out the Consultant’s typical working pattern, duties, objectives, and responsibilities for the coming year. It will cover all aspects of the Consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education, managerial responsibilities, and external commitments.
Additional programmed activities may be offered to the post holder. Any offer of additional programmed activities will be based on the needs of the service and in line with the Trust objectives and will be reviewed on an annual basis.
Subject to the conditions of the Terms and Conditions of Service, you are expected to observe the Trust’s agreed policies and procedures, drawn up in consultation with the profession on clinical matters and to follow the standing orders and financial instructions of the Trust.
In particular, where you manage employees of the Trust, you will be expected to follow the local and national employment and personnel policies and procedures.
You will be expected to make sure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of your patients to be able to contact you when necessary.
All medical and dental staff employed by the Trust are expected to comply with the UHNM Trust’s Health and Safety Policies

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