Job summary
- Main area
- Orthogeriatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: 10PA
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7188005
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Trust
- Town
- Keighley
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Orthogeriatrician
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
The successful candidate will be the lead clinician for the Orthogeriatric service, they will provide inpatient support to elderly frail orthopaedic patients, support the fracture liaison service and support a joint anaesthetic and geriatric pre-op assessment clinic. They will contribute to the acute frailty service in our new acute frailty unit. They will report to both orthopaedic and geriatric governance meetings.
Main duties of the job
For full details of the advert please see the full job description and person specification attached.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the advert please see the full job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
clincial
Essential criteria
- MRCP, FRCP or equivalent
- licence to Practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
- Excellent clinical skills Knows limits of own competence Is safe, knowledgeable and evidence of continuous learning
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (PhD; MD) or Mphil
Ability to contribute to teaching
Essential criteria
- Lecturing, small group teaching and one-to-one supervision
- Able to give honest and constructive feedback. Create a supportive learning environment. Encourages trainees to be curious.
Desirable criteria
- Distance learning or other modern learning methods
Research/Audit experience:
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking audits and presenting their findings
- Ability to critically review research
- Highly self-motivated, flexible, and able to organise time and workload in demanding NHS and academic environments
- Imaginative, creative and inquisitive
Desirable criteria
- An acknowledged expert for research in a particular aspect of healthcare education/clinical practice
- Post-MD/PhD research experience
- Experience within a research team
- A portfolio of original articles in major peer- reviewed journals
Skills
Essential criteria
- Projects Gives clear information Clear about direction of travel Listens and acts on what she/he hears Accepts others’ views Keeps others on board Delegates appropriately
- People Drives standards Has realistic expectations of others Deals with performance issues fairly, but clearly Calm in a conflict or crisis Willing to face difficult issues Seeks and acts on feedback
- Negotiations Manages boundaries appropriately Shows loyalty to the team Influences and negotiates effectively Willing to change opinion
Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team
Essential criteria
- Recruit and Train Values different professional contributions. Supports decisions once agreed. Involves others in decision making. Makes solution focused decisions.
- Motivate Adapts leadership style to the situation Shows concern for individuals Recognises the work-life balance Encourages others to question and challenge Shows an interest in how others do things Willing to try to new activities or approaches
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of conducting appraisal and/or disciplinary interviews
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge base and clinical experience in acute medicine. Relevant experience in organisation and undertaking clinical audit/appraisal. Appreciation and understanding of the role of management in the modern NHS. Excellent IT skills relevant to medicine.
Communication
Essential criteria
- Express complex ideas easily and simply in reports, paper and letters. Communicate comprehensible within the health and educational community; users and carers.
- Be self-motivated, with evidence of ability to work independently Reflects on own behaviour Plans and prioritises Deals with emails effectively and knows how to store and retrieve information
Desirable criteria
- Translate health, educational and research concepts into terms understood by non-research professional people
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Pauline Bailey
- Job title
- Consultant Elderly Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292066
- Additional information
Mr David Bowe
Orthopaedic Consultant & Clinical Lead
01535 292116
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