Consultant Geriatrician

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are seeking enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant Geriatricians to join our extremely committed team of 22 Geriatricians. Older Persons Medicine in Portsmouth is an expanding department that has responsibilities in acute and community Geriatric Medicine.

The Older Persons Medicine Department operates an acute admissions policy for patients aged 85 plus and 75 plus for people with Parkinsons. Acute care is provided at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH) with daily Consultant input to each ward and Acute Medical Unit as well as seeing new patients within the Emergency department if they have not yet reached the AMU. We are supported by a full medical team including Registrars Doctors in training Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Trainee ACPs Nurse specialists and Physician Associate. Our current service covers acute admissions OPM Same Day Emergency Care unit short stay unit acute wards and orthogeriatrics. We are developing further services for those aged 65-84 living with frailty not currently admitted to our wards and are developing surgical liaison services. We also offer a range of clinics including Rapid Access / admission avoidance and movement disorders as well as input to local urgent care response/acute frailty virtual wards. We also liaise with our community partners to ensure admission avoidance and joint working.

There is the opportunity to enhance our developing work in OPM SDEC acute admissions inpatient geriatric ward working community work Parkinsons orthogeriatrics and enhancing our surgical liaison services. Any post can include developing geriatric specialist services depending on the needs of the department and desire of the applicant. Post holders are actively encouraged to participate in service improvement projects audits research teaching and represent the service at college level and nationally. The graduate entry MBBS course at the University of Portsmouth (accredited by KCL) took its first entry in September 2024 and there are opportunities to become involved OPM is currently supporting delivery of the year 1 ageing block.

Key Responsibilities:

The post holder will be a Consultant Geriatrician with inclusion or eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register for Geriatric Medicine or General Medicine. (We also welcome enquiries from potential Specialist grade doctors.) They will have a specialist interest in the management of complex frail elderly patients in acute and community settings. The post may involve:

Acute inpatient care on a ward at QAH supported by a multidisciplinary team; they will work in tandem with a buddy consultant within each ward area. (Workload max 20 patients per consultant)

Participation in the Frailty Interface Team working in the emergency corridor providing early assessments of patients requiring unscheduled care. Work will also include actively managing patients on our Older Persons Medicine SDEC supporting early discharge admission avoidance and early senior clinical review supported by a dedicated specialist nursing team geriatrics trainee SPR dedicated junior doctor team and trainee ACPs. (Workload when on call on average we provide a post take ward round review CMA for 23 per day plus 2-3 seen in OSDEC by our registrars in addition to the CMAs.) You will have on average 45-60 minutes per new patient assessment.

• Supporting the orthogeriatric service and aiming to progress support for silver trauma
• Supporting development of a Surgical liaison service and additional liaison services
• Community working including outpatient activity virtual wards Parkinsons Disease Clinics and admission avoidance.
• The post will include weekends (1in 8) and weekday out of hours cover (1 in 16)

The post will not involve stroke care or thrombolysis which is delivered by the Stroke service.

The post will be based at Queen Alexandra Hospital. Full participation in teaching audit educational supervision (and potential for research if desired) will be expected.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• Completed Higher professional training in Geriatric Medicine and/or General Medicine
• Membership of Royal College of Physicians
• MB BS or equivalent
• Desirable
• BSc MSc
• MD

Clinical Experience

• Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months) CESR or European Community Rights

Clinical Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable skills and experience of Geriatric Medicine
• Understanding of clinical risk management

Desirable

• Demonstrated skills in acute management and intervention in the frail elderly and extensive community working.
• Specialist interest or additional training or experience in specialist area of Geriatric practice i.e. Parkinsons disease syncope falls liaison or peri-operative medicine

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
• Knowledge and use of evidence-based practice
• IT skills
• Effective confident presentation ability
• Experience in and outside speciality

Other

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Publications
• Prizes and honours
• Logical thinking problem solving and decision making

Additional Information :

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time