Trust Doctor in Specialty and Integrated Medicine

For questions about this job, contact: Name; Dr Steven Parke Position; Lead Clinician for General Internal Medicine Email; steven.parke@nhs.net Phone number; 01132065552 Why you should join our Team You will join the Specialty and Integrated Medicine (SIM) and Urgent Care Clinical Service Units (CSUs) at St James’s University Hospital (SJUH) which together cover Acute Internal Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Elderly Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology, and Infectious Diseases & Travel Medicine. Our department at SJUH is currently based across Chancellors Wing and Gledhow Wing. It comprises four Acute Medical Units (one of which incorporates a High Observation Unit (HOBS)), a Same Day Emergency Care service (with both a Medical Unit and Older Person’s Unit), two General Medicine / Diabetes & Endocrinology wards, five Elderly Medicine wards, a combined SIM ward, and an Infectious Diseases & Travel Medicine Unit. What you will bring to the role The successful candidates will be based on our MOFD wards, working alongside a multidisciplinary team including nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, specialist discharge coordinators, and social workers. Excellent experience will therefore be provided in Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, on-going in-patient care, rehabilitation, and discharge planning. In addition, postholders will be encouraged to undertake QIP work with a focus on preventing / reversing deconditioning. The department is hard-working, friendly, and co-operative. There is a strong focus on continual improvement, multi-disciplinary teamwork, clinical excellence, and patient safety and quality. There are excellent training facilities at St James’s. Across the CSUs, educational meetings are held on most days of the week. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy. About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Our Trust values The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients. Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work.

Our five values are

Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered