Job summary
- Main area
- Frailty and Ageing
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10.75 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 356-25-7200385
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hull Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £96,990 - £107,155 PA PR
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Grade Doctor in Fraity and Ageing Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
Job overview
This post is to support the acute frailty services, specifically working within the Frailty Assessment Base (FAB), Frailty Intervention Team (FIT), and the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) units. The role is aimed at improving standards and outcomes for older adults (>65 years old) presenting with acute frailty syndromes
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will help support and develop the acute frailty services in collaboration with colleagues across FAB, FIT, and FSDEC. The postholder will also contribute to a liaison service within the Medical bed base when frail patients are identified. The aim is to provide Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) to these patients in line with national guidance and best practice, supporting systems and pathways to improve outcomes for this patient cohort.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Valid ALS certificate
Desirable criteria
- • Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
- • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
- • MRCP or equivalent
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- • Full Registration with the GMC
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- • Minimum of 12 years full time postgraduate training (or equivalent gained part time)
- • At least 6 years' experience in a relevant specialty
anagement and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- • Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- • Evidence of participation in audit
- • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- • Original peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
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 Yoghini Nagandran
- Job title
- Consultant in Frailty and Ageing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 328541
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