Job summary
- Main area
- Elderly Medicine
- Grade
- Speciality Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-2508-SDELD-HG
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hopsital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £61,542 - £99,216 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor Elderly Medicine
Speciality Doctor
Job overview
4 x Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care Medicine
Division: Unplanned and Integrated Care
Care Group: Frailty
Salary: £61,542 - £99,216
We are recruiting for Specialty Doctor in Elderly Care Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work directly with the existing team of 15 Consultant Physicians in Acute Frailty who currently provide a wide range of hospital and community-based services including Acute Frailty services as well as running specialist clinics for patients with Parkinson’s disease, TIAs, falls and general medical conditions. We have established a Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly as part of Frailty- Same day Emergency Care (F-SDEC). Inpatient elderly care wards include 5 acute elderly care wards and an established purpose-built Acute Frailty Unit with10 Assessment beds, 22 short stay beds and 2 clinic rooms. In addition to existing services, we are seeking colleagues to take on the challenge of developing new models of care for frail elderly people in the community. Pioneering work has already established Integrated Locality Review meetings (MDT meetings, 2/week). Consultants are working closely with existing community teams to proactively assess and manage frail individuals in the community. We are about to open a 22 bedded Acute Unit based in a Community Hospital in Sheppey.
Working for our organisation
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- MRCP or equivalent essential. Additional degrees MD/PhD desirable.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical Governance principles
- Experience of supervising core trainees and registrars, and other non- medical professionals; preferably with an educational qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Conducting Frailty ward rounds.
- Shall have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty, or have equivalent experience.
Value Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sanjay Suman
- Job title
- Consultant Care of the Elderly
- Email address
- [email protected]
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