Consultant in Healthcare for Older People and Stroke Medicine

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Physician in Healthcare for the Older Person and Stroke Medicine to join the department for its Northern services, based at North Devon District Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established and dynamic team. Since North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital merged in 2022 we have been able to provide additional clinical support and leadership to grow our services in our Northern site. This has allowed us to expand our multi-disciplinary workforce and introduce new services such as our front door frailty team and frailty acute hospital at home. We are looking for enthusiastic, innovative and flexible individuals to further develop these services. North Devon has a large and increasing elderly population in a largely rural area with varying socio-economic needs. As such there is the opportunity to pursue sub-specialties tailored to the interests of the successful applicant. There is scope for working within frailty, ortho-geriatrics, movement disorders, syncope, stroke, community and peri-operative medicine. A team of colleagues based in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital provide twice weekly cover at N

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.