The General & Specialist Medicine Directorate is looking to appoint enthusiastic, highly motivated and dynamic Care of the Elderly Consultants to join our team at North Manchester General Hospital. You will be joining our existing three Care of the Elderly Consultants with interests in frailty and falls. Any other subspecialty interest will be considered. The consultants in our current team are supported by a large multidisciplinary team of doctors in training, clinical fellows, ACPs and a dedicated physiotherapy and occupational therapy team. You could be an experienced Care of the Elderly consultant already or completing your deanery training or completing your CESR. Whatever your current status, the impact you make here will be felt immediately and carry a legacy that will echo into the future. As part of the Care of the Elderly team you will be at the forefront of developing new frailty services which will transform the experience of our patients. We have ambitions to create a full frailty service including a front door frailty service which is currently being developed. You will be supported to be a part of this transformation with engagement from consultants, senior nurses, senior managers and ACPs. To provide rapid assessment of general medical patients. To stabilise and manage patients admitted with medical emergencies. To carry out post-take ward rounds during the week. To maintain effective communication and handover to the on-call team. To take part in the General Medical on-call rota with colleagues The successful applicant will have the opportunity to clinically and educationally supervise junior doctor trainees who will be supporting the care of your inpatients. To take part in regular medical audit as part of SPA commitment and to use the outcomes of medical audit to improve the care for patients in the Trust and local healthcare economy. Time is provided regularly to attend audit meetings and present audit where appropriate. A commitment to maintaining continuing professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning, with support and time provided to keep up to date with yearly CPD requirements. Provide advice and leadership to the clinical team in relation to patient care, education and well-being. MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 28,000 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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: Jennifer Murray Job title: Medical Workforce Manager Email address: nmgh.medicine.rota@mft.nhs.uk. Location : Manchester, England, United Kingdom