Consultant Elderly Medicine - Acute and Falls (Franklin)

Consultant Elderly Medicine - Acute and Falls (Franklin) The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

This post presents an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join a dynamic and highly regarded Elderly Medicine department. Our department has an excellent track record in service development, transformation, and integrated working across departments and across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for managing 14 inpatients on one of our general Elderly Medicine wards (Franklin ward). Franklin ward is a 28 bedded ward and the post holder will manage the ward jointly with another consultant colleague. There is also dedicated time within the job plan to cover their colleague on Franklin ward, and a further colleague on a separate Elderly Medicine ward (Hayes ward). The post holder will also do a weekly falls clinic on our Mount Vernon site.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics, and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit, and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals, and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe, and compassionate care while driving forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the link for the job description and person specification for full details of the post.

Person Specification Essential & Desirable

• MRCP
• Acute Medicine - Subspecialty Interest complimentary to rest of directorate
• Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
• Experience in Training, Research and Clinical Governance/audit ? Demonstrable commitment to teach, train and assess teaching of undergraduates, post graduates and nursing staff ? Proven teaching experience ? Experience of clinical audit and enable delivery of good practice ? Evidence of quality and service improvement
• Clinical and educational supervisor training courses
• Basic IT skills, i.e. able to handle e-mails and presentations
• 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 placing care at the heart of the service
• 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.
• Academic Achievements / Research / publications - research is encouraged.
• Experience and active participation in audit and service development with clear outcomes
• More advanced IT skills
• Knowledge of Finance / Budgets
• Attended management training course

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Plus £2,162 London Weighting

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

394-078MS24

Job locations

The Hillingdon Hospital Foundation Trust