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CONSULTANT IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE BELFORD HOSPITAL And Lochaber Community Information Pack MS12029625 APPOINTMENT OF CONSULTANT GERIATRIC MEDICINE, BELFORD HOSPITAL INFORMATION PACK Section 1 Welcome Section 2 Advert Section 3 Job Information Section 4 Job Plan Section 5 Person Specification Section 6 Terms and Conditions Section 1 – Welcome Introduction Thank you for your interest in joining NHS Highland. This information package contains details relating to the local area, this post and the Terms and Conditions of Service. NHS Highland is committed to becoming a learning organisation, recognising that staff require access to opportunities to learn, maintain and develop skills and knowledge, and we recognise the importance of valuing and supporting our staff throughout their time here. We offer: Policies to help balance commitments at work and home and flexible family friendly working arrangements Excellent training and development opportunities. On-site library services at the Centre for Health Sciences Access to NHS staff benefits/staff discounts Cycle to Work Scheme Excellent student support Access to NHS Pension scheme Recruitment Process Applicants are expected to make contact with the department before applying and we would strongly encourage those that are shortlisted to visit the department prior to interview. The cost of one preliminary visit will be met by NHS Highland. When organising a visit, candidates must agree appropriate travel and accommodation arrangements with the Medical Staffing Department prior to booking. Expenses will be reimbursed to candidates who are subsequently shortlisted. Failure to confirm arrangements with Medical Staffing may result in limited reimbursement of expenses. Department Contact: Dr Martin Wilson, Consultant Geriatrician, [email protected] Dr Patrick Byrne, Consultant Physician, Belford Hospital [email protected] Preliminary Visit Expenses: Jackie Sutherland, Medical Staffing Manager [email protected] How to Apply Applicants should complete an Application Form on the NHS Scotland National Recruitment portal. https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/. Please note we do not accept CVs. All candidates and employees are afforded equal opportunities in the recruitment and selection process and in employment irrespective of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your personal information will not be sent with the application for shortlisting. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that no applicant will be unfairly discriminated against. NHS Scotland is exempt from the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exclusions & Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2003. As part of any offer of employment in regulated work candidates will be subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme membership. Job reference: MS12029625 Closing date: 11th October 2020 Please contact [email protected] for any queries regarding submitting your application to the NHS Scotland National Recruitment website. For further information on NHS Highland, please visit our website on www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk Section 2 – Advert NHS HIGHLAND Lochaber, Belford Hospital CONSULTANT IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE Part -time POST (5 PA’s) We seek to appoint a Clinician with an enthusiasm for improving the care of older frail adults and continuing the delivery of the new model of care in Lochaber. This post has a significant outpatient and home visit element assessing and managing frail older adults in the community. In addition the post holder has a clinical leadership role in the new virtual day hospital. The post holder will participate in the MDT meetings. There is no out of hours component to this role but the opportunity exists to have additional sessions to support hospital based activity such as M&Ms or clinical leadership. Applicants must be on the GMC with a licence to practice and have Specialist Registration in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine, or be within six months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview. The post holder will be welcomed into a friendly and forward thinking team which values maintaining a supportive working environment. This post is offered as 5PA’s per week. Interested applicants should contact Dr M Wilson Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine [email protected] 01463 705751 or Patrick Byrne [email protected] Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact us in order to arrange an informal visit. A job pack for this post can be accessed at https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/ Closing date for completed applications: 11th October 2020 Section 3 – Job Information NHS HIGHLAND Belford Hospital and Lochaber The Area and the Hospital NHS Highland provides primary, community, mental health and hospital services to an area the geographical size of Belgium covering an area that comprises of the largest and most sparsely populated part of the UK. The area covers 32,512 km2 (12,507 square miles) which represents approximately 41% of the land mass of Scotland. The Scottish Highlands are known worldwide as containing some of the nation’s most outstanding landscapes and natural features. These wonderful geographical features also present a number of major challenges to the delivery of health services - a difficult terrain, rugged coastlines, populated islands. NHS Highland serves a population of 310,000 residents (excluding Argyll & Bute). In addition, a proportion of our patients come from the many tourists who visit our area all year round, but particularly in the summer months when some local populations double or even triple. Academic facilities NHS Highland, under the leadership of the Board Medical Director, Dr Boyd Peters and Director of Medical Education, Dr Helen Freeman, supports a major commitment to medical education from undergraduate to postgraduate, and supporting those who deliver teaching and training to medical students, foundation doctors and others. We get many students through the year from a variety of sources. They come from Aberdeen & Edinburgh Universities on placement. Also from the rest of Scotland, UK and worldwide on elective. From August to the start of February we take 2 Edinburgh students on rotational placement for medicine and 1 on placement for surgery. In March / April we take Edinburgh students for their ‘Preparation for practice’ blocks. From September until April we take 2 Aberdeen students on rotational placement for surgery. Over the year we take a varying number of elective students because of our size we take a maximum of six students at any one time. We take students at least at the end of their Fourth Year, or in their Final Year. The reason for this is that we encourage our students to work to FY1 standard (with cover) i.e. the traditional ‘final year elective’ we expect them to be at a stage where they have worked regularly on wards and understand hospital etiquette. Students are challenged to ‘act up to level of FY1’ because that is what they will be doing shortly when they qualify. When delegating to anyone, it is beholden on us to check the person is competent to do the task required, and often supervise initially (sometimes several times) before allowing independence (in common with the FY training). It is also appropriate for the student to present their case directly to the consultant and on the morning board rounds we find they gain a huge amount from this. We would expect our new colleague to take-over some responsibility for the 2 'surgical' placement students from the University of Aberdeen and be involved in the teaching and training of all students as well as junior doctors. Audit It is essential to your governance that you regularly participate in audit. You will be expected to perform any audit relative to your caseload and take a lead in audits with junior members of staff in addition to linking to departmental meetings in Raigmore. There is a Postgraduate Medical Centre with an excellent library supplied by University of Highland and Islands situated in the Centre for Health Science (www.centerforhealthscience.com ) which is on the Raigmore hospital site. The Highland campus of the University of Stirling is also located here, providing pre-registration nurse training. The Highland Clinical Research Facility The UHI Millennium Institute’s (UHI) Clinical Research Facility, is housed on the ground floor within the Highland Diabetes Institute; phase III of the new Centre for Health Science building adjacent to the Raigmore Hospital site. The Clinical Research Facility is a joint NHS/UHI initiative aiming to provide a high quality clinical environment in which participants can take part in research programmes safely according to ethically approved study protocols. It comprises a bedded clinical research unit in which patient monitoring may be conducted on a day case or 24 hour basis. The facility has the capacity to be used by departments or specialties within NHS Highland, UHI or other research institutions for clinical research. The facility is supported by the CRF Advisory Group and approved studies are reviewed by the CRF User’s Group. Consultant in Geriatric Medicine As such Specialist Care of the Elderly needs to be able to input at many different stages and in many different places as close to home as possible. Currently Geriatrics in Highland inputs in to a wide range of sectors from the acute to home and back. Belford Hospital Community A high proportion of Geriatric Clinical time is spent outwith the hospital. o Fort William 6 times a year (Parkinson’s disease) each clinic full day Nursing Homes o Joint care home visits with old age psychiatry, GP, pharmacy across Lochaber. Rapid access for advice o Each consultant aligns to specific practices and email and telephone advice is given regularly o Peripheral clinics are used as an extra chance to meet and interact with community teams and strengthen links VC MDT o Monthly VC link to two remote rural practices Lochinver and Armadale to discuss complex patients Old Age Psychiatry The department works closely with colleagues in Old Age Psychiatry.