Job overview

Care of the Elderly Consultant

Realising your potential with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Come join #MSEHospitals as a Care of the Elderly Consultant to realise your potential in a post focused around expanding our services, to serve our thriving and vibrant community as we transition into a ‘Group’ hospital model. We are now looking for dynamic and motivated consultants with fresh ideas to complement our existing diverse and forward-thinking team.

You will support the development of an excellent geriatric service in which the pandemic has allowed us to foster new ways of working with flexibility and remote options in mind, where in recent years we have developed innovative services such as cancer clinics and embraced technology with virtual Frailty clinics.

You, as part of our close-knit team across our partner hospitals, will provide a wide array of specialist services including an established Frailty Unit, with an expanding Ambulatory Service, Orthogeriatric’s, Dementia and Safeguarding support, Movement Disorders and Intermediate Care.

We are also committed to education and research and have a close relationship with the local Anglia Ruskin University Medical School.

 

** Previous Applicants Need Not Apply **

Main duties of the job

Your new Care of the Elderly Consultant post will support the expansion of our Frailty Service and development of our Orthogeriatric Service, involving working across Acute Frailty, Orthogeriatric, Inpatient Wards and Community on a rotational basis with subspecialty interests catered for within these.

The Department of Medicine for the Elderly (DoME) is an exciting and expanding specialty which has undergone significant change in the last few years, which now has ten substantive Consultants with a range of sub-speciality interests. 

Join us and help to expand our department in order to develop and improve our Frailty and Orthogeriatric Services across the Mid Essex region in both acute and community domains whilst rotating between wards/areas depending on your areas of interest.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people. 

 We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.  

 From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us. 

 We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.