Specialty Doctor in Elderly care and Rehabilitation: Sponsorship Available

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This post is a 6PA less-than-full-time substantive post for a Specialty Doctor in Elderly care Medicine and Rehabilitation, starting October’26. This post is sought to provide inpatient and community-based care for patients with long term conditions based at Wokingham Community Hospital

Main duties of the job

The Specialty doctor will be expected to attend consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings where patient rehabilitation progress is reviewed, and discharge plans are made. The post holder will be directly involved in communication with patients and relatives and able to offer advice to health and social care colleagues regarding rehabilitation on the wards.

Expectation to make every effort that patients are enabled to reach their rehabilitation goals and work with colleagues to ensure that the care to patients is in accordance with the NSF for Older People and other relevant guidance on good practice

Person Specification

Professional Qualifications

Essential

  • Full registration with the GMC/eligible for registration

Desirable

  • Advanced Life Support certificate
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent

Clinical Experience & Skills

Essential

  • Experience in General and Geriatric Medicine
  • Evidence of achievement of FY1&2 competencies or able to demonstrate achievement of the necessary equivalent competencies

Desirable

  • Minimum 1 year NHS experience

Clinical Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of experience in acute medical specialties, with experience of managing patients on unselected medical tak

Desirable

  • Specific management of geriatric syndromes including Dementia

Audit Management & IT

Essential

  • Ability to work within clinical governance guidelines
  • Undertake audits and present data as required.
  • Good IT skills, use of patient and hospital database

Desirable

  • Completion of Quality Improvement Project

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 26 August 2026

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