Job overview

The comprehensive range of geriatric services currently provided by HUH is as recommended by the National Service Framework for Older People and the British Geriatrics Society. Multidisciplinary team working is strong, with senior physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and social workers dedicated to elderly services. There is close liaison and collaboration with all departments, and formal links with orthopaedics, old age psychiatry, neurology, and community teams.

Over recent years, the Trust has undertaken an extensive programme of work to improve and better integrate its elderly care provision. Please see the job description for further details.

Main duties of the job

•         To work collaboratively and pro-actively with all appropriate clinical colleagues within the Trust in developing and implementing an acceptable service model reflective of best practice

•         To forge effective relationships with clinical colleagues outside the Trust to improve the coherence and integration of patient pathways

•         To share responsibility with colleagues for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients

•         To have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care

•        To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners and all other external agencies

•      To lead and co-ordinate the dedicated multi-disciplinary team appointed to support the service models to achieve effective rehabilitation and effective discharge management

•       To deliver comprehensive ward rounds and weekly multi-disciplinary meetings to co- ordinate the delivery of high-quality patient care

•        To deliver multi-disciplinary outpatient clinics to provide specialist support

•        To participate fully in the management of the Care of the Elderly Department and liaise closely with the Clinical Lead, Service Manager and Divisional Operations Director

•        To participate in corporate and singular responsibility for the management of junior medical staff.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HH) is an acute hospital located in the east London Borough of Hackney. The current Chairman is Sir John Gieve (Mary Elford will take over from 31st March 2025), and the Chief Executive is Ms Basirat Sadiq.

Homerton became one of the first ten NHS Foundation trusts in the country in April 2004. This allows the Trust to secure certain freedoms to facilitate innovation in the way services are developed and provided. As well as our Trust Board, we also have a Council of Governors comprised of governors representing the local community.

In 2011 the Trust integrated with City & Hackney Community Health Services thereby providing it with an opportunity to develop new service models and pathways that cross traditional organisational boundaries.

Employing over 3000 people, the hospital has approximately 500 beds and manages a 50-bed nursing home, Mary Seacole Nursing Home, in Shoreditch, East London. In 2022, the Trust saw over 300,000 people in outpatient clinics, and over 126,000 people were treated in the Accident and Emergency department. The Trust also had contact with over 280,00 patients and clients within the community, often in their own homes.

The Trust has a turnover in the region of £220 million, performs consistently well against national performance targets, and has an ambitious objective to increase its income to £300 million over the next few years.