Job overview

The department of Older Adult Medicine at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust are seeking to appoint two substantive Consultants to join their team, who are passionate about delivering high quality and innovative care across all sub-specialties. 

The Older Adult Medicine department provide a comprehensive service for older patients in inpatient and community settings. The department has undergone significant expansion through successful recruitment over the last five years, allowing the development of subspecialty services alongside inpatient care.

There are 64 inpatient beds at New Cross split across 3 wards, and 27 inpatient beds at Cannock Chase hospital, specialising in rehabilitation.

We have developed a successful model of orthogeriatric care which was ranked in the top 8 for prompt geriatrician assessment and osteoporosis treatment of hip fractures in England in 2023 and are developing a perioperative medicine service. We are dedicated to providing high quality care to older people living with frailty, and have a Frailty SDEC
area with daily clinic capacity to ensure rapid access to CGA from ED and community settings. 

The department has expanded its work in the community, providing consultant leadership to daily Frailty Virtual Ward round, the community Rapid Intervention Team, and support to clinical triage in community care coordination.

We would support any subspecialty interest, including the development of new services which would benefit people living with Frailty.

Main duties of the job

Main aims and objectives of the post include:
•    Implementation of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
•    To take responsibility for older patients with frailty on the older adult medicine wards.
•    To work in conjunction with other professionals in managing older adult patients with frailty as close to home as possible and using community facilities where appropriate to reduce hospital length of stay by working proactively with community colleagues.
•    To assist General Practitioners in the management of older people living with frailty.
•    To contribute to education and training of staff of multiple disciplines caring for older people.
•    To provide Consultant Geriatrician input into strategic planning of services for older people in Wolverhampton and to develop new services aimed at caring for older people in an innovative way reducing dependence on hospital stays.
•    The post may also develop to include care of appropriate patients in other areas such as trauma and orthopaedics, perioperative care, oncology, and community.

A job plan has been designed but this will be subject to annual review and may well develop significantly during the first year that the appointee is in post.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.