Consultant Orthogeriatrician

Job Overview

The successful candidate will be the lead clinician for the Orthogeriatric service, they will provide inpatient support to elderly frail orthopaedic patients, support the fracture liaison service and support a joint anaesthetic and geriatric pre-op assessment clinic. They will contribute to the acute frailty service in our new acute frailty unit. They will report to both orthopaedic and geriatric governance meetings.

Main duties of the job

For full details of the advert please see the full job description and person specification attached.

Working for our organisation

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
  
  

Our Values:

We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity
  
  

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For full details of the advert please see the full job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

clincial

Essential Criteria

• MRCP, FRCP or equivalent
• licence to Practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
• Excellent clinical skills Knows limits of own competence Is safe, knowledgeable and evidence of continuous learning
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree (PhD; MD) or Mphil
  
  

Ability to contribute to teaching

Essential Criteria

• Lecturing, small group teaching and one-to-one supervision
• Able to give honest and constructive feedback. Create a supportive learning environment. Encourages trainees to be curious.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Distance learning or other modern learning methods
  
  

Research/Audit Experience:

Essential criteria

• Experience of undertaking audits and presenting their findings
• Ability to critically review research
• Highly self-motivated, flexible, and able to organise time and workload in demanding NHS and academic environments
• Imaginative, creative and inquisitive
  
  

Desirable criteria

• An acknowledged expert for research in a particular aspect of healthcare education/clinical practice
• Post-MD/PhD research experience
• Experience within a research team
• A portfolio of original articles in major peer- reviewed journals
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Projects Gives clear information Clear about direction of travel Listens and acts on what she/he hears Accepts others’ views Keeps others on board Delegates appropriately
• People Drives standards Has realistic expectations of others Deals with performance issues fairly, but clearly Calm in a conflict or crisis Willing to face difficult issues Seeks and acts on feedback
• Negotiations Manages boundaries appropriately Shows loyalty to the team Influences and negotiates effectively Willing to change opinion
  
  

Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team

Essential Criteria

• Recruit and Train Values different professional contributions. Supports decisions once agreed. Involves others in decision making. Makes solution focused decisions.
• Motivate Adapts leadership style to the situation Shows concern for individuals Recognises the work-life balance Encourages others to question and challenge Shows an interest in how others do things Willing to try to new activities or approaches
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of conducting appraisal and/or disciplinary interviews
  
  

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Excellent knowledge base and clinical experience in acute medicine. Relevant experience in organisation and undertaking clinical audit/appraisal. Appreciation and understanding of the role of management in the modern NHS. Excellent IT skills relevant to medicine.
  
  

Communication

Essential Criteria

• Express complex ideas easily and simply in reports, paper and letters. Communicate comprehensible within the health and educational community; users and carers.
• Be self-motivated, with evidence of ability to work independently Reflects on own behaviour Plans and prioritises Deals with emails effectively and knows how to store and retrieve information
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Translate health, educational and research concepts into terms understood by non-research professional people