We have been assigned by one of the UK's more prestigious NHS Trusts to help them recruit a Consultant in Care of the Elderly on either a Substantive or an NHS Fixed Term basis for 12 months to join their successful department.

Our client's Elderly Care Department currently has 10 full time substantive and 2 Locum consultants. They provide input to elderly care / Acute Frailty Unit / Orthogeriatrics and a range of outpatient as well as community based services. Each ward has a full medical staffing complement including one each of FY1, CMT / GPVTS and Specialist Registrar / middle grade. Discharge planning and support, is aided by an Integrated Discharge Team. There are links with the much larger community based nursing and therapy teams. Department has well established weekly educational seminar, monthly Morbidity and Mortality meeting and Clinical Governance meeting.

In addition there are 3 Stroke Consultants running a thrombolysis service and a dedicated Stroke Uni...