SCF Geriatrics special interest in falls

Overview

We are excited to be advertising fixed term Geriatrics and Frailty Senior Clinical Fellow posts with a Special Interest in Falls.

The post includes Internal Medicine on-call at SpR level, as well as rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front-door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter-team liaison. The post holder would carry out falls quality improvement activities, participate in the training of others and be based within the COE inpatient team to gain general geriatrics inpatient experience to support development of the falls subspecialist interest.

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefit ting from a newelectronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have beenrated goodby the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A& E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance
We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

• Full Registration with the GMC
• Full MRCP
• Valid ALS

• Other relevant post-graduate degrees or diplomas

• Core procedural skills in line with completion of IMT or equivalent.
• Experience in UK health system.
• 2 years experience at ST3+ level in a UK Geriatric Medicine post including internal medicine on-calls

• Previous geriatric medicine experience. Risk management experience.

• QIP or audit completion.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work in the multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to prioritise and communicate in different situations and under pressure.

• Teaching experience / certificate

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