Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine
* Sligo, Ireland
* Part-time, Temporary
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Community Healthcare Services focus on keeping you well so that you can continue to live at home or close to home through our health promotion, disease screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation programs. Community healthcare services include: Primary Care: General Practitioners (GPs), practice nurses, public health nurses, dieticians, dentists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, podiatrists, and community pharmacists.
Description
Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine
Public Only Consultant Contract 2023
This post is located in the Memory Assessment and Support Service (MASS), Older Persons Services Sligo/Leitrim for 18.5 hours per week. The service has recently been established to implement the Model of Care (MOC) for Dementia in Ireland under the HSE's Corporate Plan 2020 - 2023 and the HSE's National Service Plan. The Consultant will support the MASS team based in the community to provide care for all those living with Dementia in the area. The service has been developed in conjunction with the Psychiatry of Later Life and the Neurology teams in Sligo University Hospital. The aim of the service is to reduce hospital outpatient waiting lists for Dementia patients by providing streamlined care in the Community. This post is supported by a multi-disciplinary team.
The Consultant will work with the Operational Lead for Integrated Care Programme who provides operational governance for the MASS service. The consultant will be expected to provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team and regularly partake in multidisciplinary team meetings.
Minimum Qualifications:
Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialties of geriatric medicine and general (internal) medicine.
Informal Enquiries to: Paula Hickey - email: paulam.hickey@hse.ie or Telephone: 071 9136847
HSE Medical Manpower Donegal is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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