Specialty Doctor in Orthogeriatrics

Job overview

We’re proud to be one of the major academic research centres and education providers in England and Research and Innovation is the heart of all we do, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re also excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable and tackling climate change.

Candidates must be eligible for their own GMC registration: an active licence, ceased license or pending application with the GMC at the point of application. Candidates who do not fit this criteria will not progress through to the shortlisting stage.

This post is not suitable for doctors specialising in Orthopaedic Surgery.

Advert

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Orthogeriatric Team within the Directorate of Trauma and Orthopaedics at North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH). The team is led by the Consultant Ortho- geriatrician.

The post will be based on the Trauma ward at NMGH and will allow the successful candidate to develop a special interest. We currently provide a 5 day service with no on call commitments.

As well as providing clinical expertise on the ward, you will be working along side the Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate to help and enhance our service.

You clinical duties will include:

• Ensuring patients are seen by an Ortho-geriatrician within 72 hours of admission.
• Seeing unwell adult patients as requested by the Orthopaedic Team.
• Attending multidisciplinary team meetings and board rounds.
• Working with the specialist nurse for inpatient osteoporosis to arrange investigations and treatments. 
• Supporting the consultant in bone health assessment clinics

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.