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Job overview

The postholder will work for the vascular geriatrics consultant delivering comprehensive geriatric assessment to older patients undergoing vascular surgery. The postholder will undertake pre-operative assessments on the ward and in clinic, be involved in shared decision making and optimising patients for surgery and post-operative management on the ward.  The fellow will participate in board rounds, ward rounds – jointly with vascular and independently - and multi-disciplinary team meetings. There is an option of contributing to the on call rota covering acute medicine and ward cover on calls. The postholder will also be part of the senior health referral rota, reviewing patients under other specialties. These are often surgical patients and will provide exposure to other surgical specialties.

Main duties of the job

• To demonstrate excellent communication skills, working collaboratively and constructively with the vascular team

• Working closely with the vascular team to provide medical input, frailty assessments and comprehensive geriatric assessments primarily for patients over 65 years but also will need to be comfortable providing care to younger patients

• To provide senior medical support, teaching and mentoring to the vascular team

• To attend board rounds to ensure consistent geriatric presence and adequate handover

• To attend vascular POPS clinic and contribute to vascular MDT meetings

• To deliver teaching both informally in board rounds and on ward rounds and formally in vascular meetings

• To work closely with our multi-disciplinary team to facilitate discharge planning and support them in providing care to complex older patients

• To work closely with the geriatric consultant to embed the peri-operative service and to help with data collection/ QIP/ service development

• To take responsibility for the reviews and advice given and communicating this effectively while overall responsibility for patient care remains under the vascular surgical team

• Be part of the senior health referrals rota, providing senior health input into patients under other medical and surgical specialties

Working for our organisation

 St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for South-West London, Surrey and beyond. The trust is a major acute hospital that provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary care including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke to community services. The hospital also provides all the usual care expected from a local NHS district general hospital. Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff. With national and regional referrals added to our local catchment of 3.5 million, we serve a population of around 5 million. Co-located with the trust is St George’s, University of London, a medical school with 270 students per year. Both the trust and the medical school have a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners. Together, the trust and medical school delivers high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.