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At the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust we pride ourselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. The Trust has an excellent reputation for delivering high quality patient care and is nationally accredited at the highest levels in many areas, in particular clinical outcomes and patient safety.

Our Vision for the Trust is to deliver NHS care locally that makes our staff and our community proud. We want our patients to be assured they will receive care as rapidly as possible in a first-class environment that is Safe, Kind and Effective.

Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviors.

Applications are invited for a substantive post for the position of Consultant Geriatrician.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS FT is an RCP Future Hospital exemplar site and continues to transform its urgent care pathways, by working closely with our community health and social care providers, as well as Western Cheshire CCG to deliver an integrated model that increases the utilisation of ambulatory and short stay care whilst supporting enhanced care delivery within the community. The Trust has a strong Medical Education department and the post holder would have a significant educational role. The Trust has also been successful in securing 5 additional CMT posts to rotate through Acute Medicine/ACU/Frailty.

Current elderly care services include

• Community Geriatric services operating through our dedicated Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit (EMU) frailty including specialist elderly care nurses, advanced clinical practitioners, therapists, pharmacists and a AGE UK wellbeing coordinator
• Two general geriatric medicine wards with an enhanced multidisciplinary team approach to care
• A highly rated hyperacute stroke service providing 24/7 consultant led thrombolysis, hyperacute stroke unit and stroke research portfolio
• Comprehensive multidisciplinary falls and orthogeriatric liaison services
• Dementia service including dedicated elderly care psychiatrist (in addition to the above elderly care consultants) and dementia liaison nurses
• Multidisciplinary movement disorders service
• Comprehensive discharge to assess pathways
• Wide ranging undergraduate and postgraduate education including new working relationships with Chester University’s Clinical MD programme. There is therefore the future possibility of applicants working in this programme if desired.

The Elderly care department at the Countess of Chester consists of an enthusiastic and dynamic group of consultants committed to providing high quality core geriatric specialist care. The post offers an exciting opportunity to join this team and the successful candidate will have many opportunities to influence the rapid development occurring within elderly care in West Cheshire

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has retained the 40 Top Hospital award this year, and has achieved this every year since the award was instituted in 2001.Our aim is to be the preferred hospital of choice for patients. Chester is a beautiful historic Roman city, which also provides easy access to the North Wales countryside and coast.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large district General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital. The Trust has almost 4,000 staff and provides a range of medical services to more than 445,000 patients per year from areas covering Western Cheshire, Ellesmere Port, Neston and North Wales.

If subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1975, then a disclosure submission will be made to the Disclosure & Barring service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. The cost of the DBS application is £28 (standard) or £45 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

Overseas candidates are responsible for their travel expenses until the point of entry into Britain. The Trust will not fund applications for Work Permits and Further Leave to Remain. Those requiring Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome & will be considered alongside all other applicants. However non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available, as the Trust is unlikely in this circumstance to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website

From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependant’s (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement.

Please note, for external applicants only, if you apply via NHS Jobs, your application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, furthermore as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via NHS Jobs. By applying for this post you are agreeing to the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR).