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Clinical Fellow in Geriatric Medicine – Inpatient Unit
East Lothian Community Hospital
Fixed Term – 6 Months – Starting August 2024
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term, part time 37.5hours per week) post based in East Lothian Community Partnership.
This post arises from a current vacancy and provides the applicant with the opportunity to work with a lovely team providing person-centered inpatient care to older people from East Lothian, based in East Lothian Community Hospital. This post would particularly suit someone interested in pursuing a career in Medicine, Medicine of the Elderly or General Practice.
The successful candidate will join the current multidisciplinary Medicine of the Elderly Team who support the inpatient acute assessment, rehabilitation and Health Board Complex Clinical Care (HBCCC) wards. The new post holder will provide medical input to the orthogeriatric rehabilitation ward at East Lothian Community Hospital, supporting the existing senior medical staff and providing medical support. This ward, (Ward 5) provides Pan-Lothian rehabilitation to patients in the early post-op period after orthopaedic trauma. Patients are transferred from the acute site from Day 3 onwards and so you may be managing some post-op complications such as pneumonia, wound infections and anaemia. The successful candidate will also provide cross-cover of other general MOE areas. There is a very strong ethos of multidisciplinary team working within the hospital so it is important that any candidate for this role has a collaborative approach to medical practice and ideally experience of working within a MDT with physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing colleagues and other Allied Health Professionals.
There will be the opportunity to take part in teaching, quality improvement work and service development.
Relevant experience in care of the elderly and/or general medicine is desirable. The post will involve some weekend commitments in Medicine of the Elderly at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. You may also be asked to cover some evening shifts at ELCH. Evening shifts are supported by a Nurse Practitioner with advice available by telephone from the MOE Consultant.
The post-holder will be on a standard 10 Programmed Activity contract (see detailed outline job plan in section 6).
Part-time applicants are encouraged to apply.
More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.
For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Jenny Harrison
Clinical Lead for Older People’s Services, East Lothian Community Hospital jennifer.harrison3@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
01620 442815
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