The post holder will be part of a dynamic and innovative trauma and orthopaedic team which is looking to appoint a keen and enthusiastic Consultant Ortho-geriatrician. The post holder will work closely with Trauma team to support fractured neck of femur surgery on site.
The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary team approach alongside of medical staff/doctors, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals.
Clinical Responsibilities Include
- Seeing any unwell adult patients as requested by the orthopaedic team.
These patients are usually directly referred by the FY1 Doctors.
- Providing advice about the medical care of patients on the ward.
- Working with and supervising the Speciality Doctors / locum Registrars, to ensure that patients receive care to the standard required by the Best
Practice Tariff and the National Hip Fracture Database. This will include:
- Ensuring patients are seen by an Orthogeriatrician (Consultant,
Speciality Doctor or locum Registrar) within 72 hours of admission
- Completing the standardised falls and osteoporosis assessment
documents
- Attending daily “board rounds” / multidisciplinary team meetings.
(Currently at 2pm Monday to Friday).
- Working with and supervising the Specialist Nurse for Inpatient
Osteoporosis to arrange osteoporosis investigations and treatment
- Talking to patients relatives concerning medical problems and end of life
care.
- Communicating about patient care with other members of the
Multidisciplinary Team (including surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, trauma
coordinators and therapists).
- Ensuring GPs are made aware of changes to long term medication (and the reasons for the changes).
- At present there is an outpatient clinic alternate Friday afternoons. This could be developed depending on the interests of the postholder.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn & 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 30,000 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrew Brown Job title: Senior Operational Manager Email address:
[email protected]
