Locum Consultant Elderly Care

We have an exciting opportunity for a fixed-term Consultant to provide maternity leave cover within the Frailty Service. The role will primarily support our Frailty Ward, covering a minimum of 12 and up to 24 beds as part of a cross-cover arrangement. In addition, the post holder will be expected to contribute to selected sessions within our front-facing services. A draft job plan is included within this advert. The successful candidate will also participate in the Acute Medical Take (unselected) on an approximately monthly basis, incorporated within the 10 PA job plan. When undertaking on-call duties, all scheduled programmed activities for that day will be cancelled. On-call commitments include a resident shift from 13:00 to 21:00, with non-resident overnight cover provided remotely. There is also an expectation that the appointee will contribute to the clinical supervision and support of resident doctors. Although the post is advertised on a full-time basis, we are happy to consider applications for Less-Than Full-Time (LTFT) working., The post holder will be expected to:

• Provide clinical leadership and senior decision-making within the Frailty Service
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including frailty nurse specialists, ACPs, pharmacists, and resident doctors
• Contribute to clinical supervision, teaching, and support of resident doctors
• Participate in service development, quality improvement, and governance activities within the department
• Support the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred care in line with Trust values
The post holder will work flexibly across the frailty pathway to support service demands and maintain high standards of patient care.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.