Role Summary
The department for Healthcare for Older People (HfOP) is looking to recruit a Specialty Doctor based at our Community Hospitals in Exmouth and Sidmouth. This is an exciting time to join our team and help shape a new medical model structure to support our Community Hospitals working alongside Advanced Practitioners and a strong multidisciplinary team.
About the Role
Our Community Hospitals are an integral part of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with leadership provided by consultants based within the HfOP department. The units are nurse and therapy led providing rehabilitation and nursing care; the appointee would work closely with these teams and the doctors-in-training on the units to provide holistic and comprehensive geriatric care. Our team aim to support a seamless transition at discharge to community services and ensure all our patients receive the care they would choose in what is often a later phase in their lives’. The Community Hospital ethos is to enable patient and carer-centred outcomes and goals with the purpose of optimising health, wellbeing and independence.
Suitable candidates will have experience working with older people / people living with frailty and ideally have experience working in a Community Hospital or rehabilitation setting.
Devon is a brilliant place to live. We have two of the most famous national parks on our doorstep and the beautiful Devon coastline. Outdoor activities are a major attraction with good surfing, kite surfing, road and mountain-biking, kayaking and hiking. Exeter itself has been voted one of the UKs most desirable places to live with a great selection of shops and independent restaurants mixed with the local farming it’s a foodies’ dream.
Exeter has excellent transport connections to Bristol and London and a local airport serving Europe. The city is very family orientated with great schools and offers a vast number of family-focused activities and events making it an ideal place to bring up children.
Potential applicants will:
- Have full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council; and
- Have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty; or
- Have equivalent experience and competencies.
There is opportunity for this post to be full time or part time and we can be flexible for the right applicant.
Working Pattern: Please see attached recruitment pack.
Interview Date: TBC
For further information please contact:
Susie Harris or David Strain, Clinical Leads HfOP – 01392 402594 or 406460 – Susie.harris@nhs.net or d.strain@exeter.ac.uk
Toni Sutherland, Clinical Matron Community Hospitals – 07970180101 toni.sutherland@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 34 days plus bank holidays depending on grade and years of service.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
