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Job overview

Applications are invited for a candidate to work within the department of Ageing and Complex Medicine in the Division of Integrated Care for a 12-month period starting in August 2024.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a trainee geriatrician to develop as a medical educator. The post holder will work with a consultant with an interest in medical education to deliver teaching to undergraduate medical students in ageing and complex health. They would be supported to deliver small group teaching and bedside teaching as well as gaining an insight into curriculum design and implementation. There will also be opportunities to develop new educational material in this area and to participate in medical education research.

You would also provide some clinical cover within the department. They should be able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm for working with older adults in a variety of settings. The role does not entail any regular commitment to the on-call Rota or out of hours working.

The directorate currently comprises:

• 3 Acute Ageing and Complex Medicine (ACM) Wards
• Specialist Parkinson’s Disease & Complex Care of the Elderly outpatient clinics
• Frailty Zone on the Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU)
• Emergency Department in-reach
• Frailty SDEC
• Community Services
• Ortho-geriatric Service
• General Surgery and Trauma Liaison Services

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible alongside the clinical placement supervisors for the delivery of the ageing and complex health module as part of Manchester medical schools ageing and complex health curriculum. This includes bedside clinical teaching, classroom-based teaching, curriculum and teaching materials design and experience in assessment.

Students are present for 32 weeks of the year so for the remaining 20 weeks the post-holder would work as a senior clinical fellow within Ageing & Complex Medicine, with the opportunity to work across a number of core or subspecialty areas including acute frailty, orthogeriatric, trauma, surgical liaison, and community geriatrics. 

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/