Consultant Geriatrician (Elderly Care)

Role: Consultant Geriatrician

Location: Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital

Salary: Circa £105,000 – £140,000

Start Date: ASAP

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are proud to have a Brand New, State of the Art hospital as our new patient centred care giving offering for our local residents.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opened in October 2024 and provides cutting edge care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises which are flooded with natural light. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

Your role will largely be based at the new site offering the opportunity to work with state of the art equipment which will allow you fulfil your potential.

What do we offer you:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Amazing development opportunities with the first UK Clinical skills lab being embedded within the hospital, allowing an emphasis on education within medical and surgical conditions, high dependency, Paediatric emergency assessment, Paediatric outpatients, adolescent and CAMHS
• An opportunity to have access to state of the art equipment within a brand new hospital setting
• Annual personal development review, 1:1 support
• External and Internal courses 
• Services to support your health and wellbeing (which starts with the layout of the hospital), sanctuary, and free access to onsite gym
• The benefit of the NHS pension scheme offering

What we need from you:

• MRCP Qualified
• Entry on the Specialist Register in General and Geriatric Medicine (or entry expected within 6 months from the date of interview)
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining CCT in Geriatric Medicine 
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
• Ability to work well with colleagues and within a team
• Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
• Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making
• The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff

Your duties will include:

• To collaborate and work to maintain Older Adult and General Medical services in line with strategic requirement
• To provide a consultation and advisory service to medical colleagues in other specialties in the Trust
• To take responsibility for the professional supervision and appraisal of post graduate doctors, in conjunction with colleagues
• To liaise with medical staff in other specialties and participate in clinical meetings and postgraduate activities in the Trust
• To contribute to the development of Older Adult services, treatment guidelines and the promotion of greater knowledge of the management of older persons conditions in primary care
• To demonstrate a firm commitment to the principles of clinical governance

Don’t miss this opportunity to join a brand new hospital project which affords some of the best chances for career progression that you are likely to find.

If you should have any queries regarding the role then please contact paul.madigan@espirita.co.uk.