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Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Our mission is to be Outstanding for our patients, our communities and each other.
In order to realise this goal, we recognise that we need the engagement and collaboration of our staff, our patients and local population and our partners across the health and care system.
We commit to:
- Always put our patients first through high quality, safe care and an excellent patient experience
- Be the best place to work with a diverse, engaged workforce that is fit for the future
- Work in partnership to design and provide high quality, financially sustainable services in innovative and modern buildings.
We believe WHH has a strong future as part of a progressive local integrated health and care system with new hospital estate at the heart and a focus on supporting our populations to live long and healthy lives independently. Internally, our focus firmly remains on continually improving the quality of our care, embracing new ways of working and developing and empowering our staff to lead change and improvement.
Our 3-Year Strategy, which can be viewed by clicking on the document below.
Our WHH Strategy sets out the vision for the next five years for your hospitals, setting out the plans that we have to continue to deliver high quality, safe and sustainable health and care services for the local population of Warrington and Halton and beyond. It highlights any changes that you might see to our services as we adapt to the demands from an ageing population and the rapidly changing local and national picture across the wider NHS.
Consultant in Medicine for Older People
Accepting applications until: 31-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Warrington Hospital
- Address
- Lovely Lane
- Town
- Warrington
- Postcode
- WA5 1QG
- Major / Minor Region
- Cheshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Consultant
Job overview
As a member of the Department of Medicine for Older People consultant team you will work as part of a multi-Disciplinary ward based team overseeing the care of your patients.
Depending on your sub-specialty interests clinical and non-clinical sessions can be built into your job plan including but not limited to Orthogeriatrics, Perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS), Movement Disorder, Dementia or acute medicine sessions. The CBU is focused on developing the service in new and innovative ways and would support sessions to develop new services.
Admin and SPA time is allocated accordingly and you would also be part of the GIM on-call rota.
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The job plan to commence will be approximately 10 programmed activities (PAs) set out as above with additional PA’s for on-call.
New consultants also attract an additional 0.5 PA SPA for their first 6 months in post.
All consultants are expected to complete a minimum of 42 of their 52 fixed sessions within a full year. Leave requests with 6 weeks’ notice (on pro-rata basis).
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full details of this role are available within the Job Description and the Person Specification.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • MRCP or equivalent • CCT/CCST in or Geriatric Medicine
Desirable criteria
- • PhD or MD
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
- • Experience of working within an MDT
Desirable criteria
- • Expertise in a specialty field within Elderly Care i.e., Falls, Dementia, Frailty
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration
- • Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively.
- • Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GP’s nurses, other staff and agencies.
Desirable criteria
- • Formal training in teaching
- • Knowledge and experience of the application of information technology to Medicine
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Daniel Burke
- Job title
- Care of the Elderly Specialty Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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