# Consultant in Elderly Medicine - Hayes Ward (8.75PAs)

**Company**: The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Uxbridge, London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This post presents an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join a dynamic and highly regarded Elderly Medicine department at The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will join the new Frailty Assessment Unit, which was the first frailty assessment unit in North West London to achieve all 5 of NHS England's Acute Frailty service recommendations.

The post-holder will be responsible for managing 15 inpatients on one of the general Elderly Medicine wards (Hayes ward). The post holder will also be responsible for covering their colleague on Hayes ward and a further colleague on a separate Elderly Medicine ward (Franklin ward).

The post-holder will be responsible to the Director of Unplanned Care at The Hillingdon Hospital. The role is an 8.75 PA post (6 PA Core hours DCC and 0.75 PA GIM on-call) and 2 PA's supporting professional activities (SPA) as agreed by the medical director, the latter includes service development, audit, and personal CPD.

The post holder will participate in the on-call emergency medical rota on an approximately 1:21 basis. During the week, the post holder will be on call from home from 1900-0700, and then complete an onsite post take ward round the following morning from 0700-0900. During split weekend on calls (Saturday or Sunday), the post holder will be present on site from 0700-1900 and then on call from home until the following morning at 0700.

The post holder will be encouraged to develop an area of expertise of special interest that they may have in Geriatric Medicine in accordance with the service needs of the department. The post-holder will have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of the department.

**Main duties of the job**

- Managing inpatients on Hayes ward

- Participating in on-call emergency medical rota

- Developing an area of expertise in Geriatric Medicine

- Contributing to service development, audit, and personal CPD

**Person Specification** Essential:

- MRCP

- Acute Medicine - Subspecialty Interest complementary to rest of directorate

- Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes

- Experience in Training, Research, and Clinical Governance/audit

- Clinical and educational supervisor training courses

- Basic IT skills

- Well-developed effective leadership and management skills - NHS Leadership Framework

- Demonstrates ability, initiative, drive to contribute to the strategy, deliver and support change and improve services for patients

- Ability to lead and manage complex systems

- Ability to effectively plan and manage resources, people, and performance

- Ability to develop, influence, communicate, and deliver the strategy working with divisions

- Demonstrate leadership, team player, flexibility, and organisational skills within a multidisciplinary team

- Ability to motivate staff, to facilitate changes in clinical practice

Desirable:

- Higher degree

- Academic Achievements / Research / publications

- More advanced IT skills

- Knowledge of Finance / Budgets

- Attended management training course

**Benefits**

- Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year, plus £2162 London Weighting

- Permanent, full-time contract

## Skills

### Required
- MRCP
- Acute Medicine
- Audit and Service Development
- Leadership and Management
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- Higher degree
- Academic Achievements
- Research
- Advanced IT skills
- Finance/Budgets
- Management training

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