Job summary
Employer heading
Community Consultant Geriatrician
Consultant
Job overview
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Consultant Community Geriatrician
This post will join 2 other Community Geriatricians from LUHFT and 1 from Mersey Care NHSFT and also the team supporting the acute frailty service at the Royal site. The post will seek to develop, strengthen, and provide within the following:
A common model across Liverpool and South Sefton in order to strengthen the provision, enable cross cover, peer support, improved governance, support and measurement.
The aim of provision should be a minimum of 1 WTE to 150,000 population.
Provision of the service from the community and mental health provider will aim to improve integration with relevant other community professionals and dedicated approach to community care.
Main duties of the job
The focus of direct input will be on providing pro-active care to complex elderly patients through overseeing comprehensive geriatric assessment, care planning, assistance with diagnosis and managing complex medical presentations.
Community geriatricians will be available to provide daily support and direct supervision to community matrons (both domiciliary and care homes) who will be their primary link into the services of Integrated Care Teams in general.
Community Geriatricians will deliver care as part of a MDT approach. Key stakeholders for whom community geriatricians should work alongside and receive mutual support from include:
a. Community Matrons in particular within Integrated Care Teams
b. Intermediate care facilities
c. Care Homes
d. Old age Psychiatry services
e. Frailty units and Geriatrics departments within acute trusts
f. End of Life services
g. GPs
Maintaining links with the respective acute trusts will be secured to ensuring on-going seamless care and positive working relationships. Community geriatricians will have an opportunity to work one day a week on a frailty unit or similar setting.
Provide cover when required for physical health reviews for psycho-geriatrics in-patients.
The current model of responsive (less than 2 week) review from GP referrals within out-patient clinics, domiciliary home visits, care home in-reach will be part of each community geriatricians weekly job plan
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Sample Timetable*
*the elements will remain but the specific days may vary depending on needs.
Week 1 |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
AM 9-12.30pm |
Frailty MDT/ Short stay ward DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Frailty MDT/ Short stay ward DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Frailty MDT/ Short stay ward DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Frailty MDT/ Short stay ward DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Frailty MDT/ Short stay ward DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
PM 1pm-5pm |
SDEC/ Frailty in reach 1 PA |
SDEC/ Frailty in reach 1 PA |
SDEC/ Frailty in reach 1 PA |
SDEC/ Frailty in reach 1 PA |
SDEC/ Frailty in reach 1 PA |
Weeks 2/3/4 |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
AM 9-12.30pm |
Out-Patient Clinic DCC: 0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Community Visits DCC0.75PA
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Core SPA Clinical Lecture/ Teaching Activity 1 PA |
Community Visits and MDT
Associated Admin DCC: 0.25PA |
Community Visits and MDT
1PA |
PM 1pm-5pm |
Core SPA Clinical Lecture/ Teaching Activity 1 PA |
Core SPA Educational supervisor SPA 1PA |
Care Home visits and MDT
DCC: 1PA |
Community Visits and MDT 1 PA |
Clinical Admin 1 PA |
DCC |
7.5 |
SPA (core) |
2.5 |
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the GMC and licence to practise (or eligible for) On GMC specialist register for Geriatric and General Medicine or
- Eligible for specialist register in Geriatric and General Medicine.
Teaching, training and experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of training & education (PGCE)
- Evidence of delivery of education, both undergraduate and postgraduate
- To have a good understanding of ‘Good Medical Practice’ from the GMC
- Proven track record in significant audit
- Publication of audit results
- Involvement in research
- Publication of research
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB ChB (or equivalent)
- MRCP (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.
- Higher degree such as MD or PhD.
Managing Self
Desirable criteria
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on clinical conditions of adult patients and in particular, older patients. Ability to offer management of long term conditions.
- Ability to advice on efficient and smooth running of the department of medicine for the elderly
- Ability to take responsibility, make decision, exert appropriate authority
- A commitment to the highest standards in clinical care and service and personal development
- Must be able to demonstrate and model the key Trust Common Purpose ‘Getting it right for every patient every time’ and the Trust values of - Delivering safe compassionate care - Improve through learning and innovation - Communicate honestly and openly - Work as a team - Use resources wisely - Value each other
- Positive approach to lessons learnt
Working with others
Desirable criteria
- Excellent communication and knowledge sharing, both within the multidisciplinary team and externally, and with patients, carers and healthcare professionals as appropriate.
- Committed to improving the patient healthcare experience and improving Trust performance.
- Projects a positive image and able to challenge negativity, internally and externally.
- Empathic and sensitive approach to patient needs.
Managing Others
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of management and the specific management issues within a NHS Foundation Trust
- Demonstrates ability to work in a multidisciplinary team with the ability to lead and manage conflict
- Committed to the delivery of operational targets
- Develops, supports and motivates trainee medical staff
Leading People
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementing service change to enhance the quality of patient care. Ability to provide consultant level leadership - Experience of and ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams - Evidence of leadership skills within multi-disciplinary teams. - Ability to organise own workload and prioritise clinical needs. Understanding of NHS, Clinical Governance and risk management - Able to assess, contain and manage clinical risk and support colleagues in managing risk - Ability to act as mentor to junior medical staff - Act as a role model - - Able to demonstrate management skills
- Demonstrates an approach based on critical enquiry, evidence based practice and the development of practice based evidence
- Strong but collaborative leadership abilities, within the multidisciplinary team, across the Trust and in an interagency context.
- Good leadership skills with the ability to adapt and innovative and lead change within the healthcare system.
- Shows enthusiasm for the development of the service and an ability to think strategically.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Matthew Tedford
- Job title
- Clinical Director-Geriatric Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 282 6494
- Additional information
Dr Mark Lawton
Divisional Medical director- Medicine
PA Mark Masters Walsh 01517063147
Dr Matthew Tedford
Clinical Director-Geriatric Medicine Royal and Broadgreen Sites[email protected]
0151 282 6494
Dr Alison Diack
Frailty Services Lead
0151 282 6874 Royal and Broadgreen Sites
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