Specialty Doctor Elderly Care/Intermediate Care

Job summary
JOB TITLE: Specialty Doctor Elderly Care/Intermediate Care Mountnessing Court (Billericay)

Contract: 6 Programmed Activities
Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

Base: Mountnessing Court, 240 Mountnessing Road, Billericay, CM12 0EH

This is a well-established post but is vacant due to the previous doctor leaving the organisation.

This is funded as 6 Programmed Activities (6 PAs) post with 5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

This is a substantive, part time (3 days) post and we are also open to consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trusts Values in their day-to-day work.

We are kind
We are respectful
We work with our communities

Main duties of the job
This post is for a Specialty Doctor position in one of our three Intermediate Care Wards, at Mountnessing Court, 240 Mountnessing Road, Billericay, CM12 0EH

Rationale for post:

This is a well-established post soon to be vacant due to the previous doctor leaving the organisation. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place within Intermediate Care Services in Essex.

This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

This is a replacement, substantive, part time post 6 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced multidisciplinary team providing care to adults and older people admitted to the Community Hospital Inpatient ward for Rehabilitation and

About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Details
Date posted: 01 September 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Specialty Doctor
Salary: £63,969 to £102,689 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: MCX-3ML-001946
Job locations: Mountnessing Court, Billericay, Essex, CM12 0EH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the assessment and clerking of new admissions, managing ongoing medical issues and completing electronic discharge letters
• To assist with twice weekly consultant ward rounds and attend once weekly multidisciplinary team meetings for efficient discharge planning.
• To provide clinical response to any emergency clinical issues that might arise.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information using the Systm One electronic medical record as required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.

Clinical Skills:

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Training & Supervision:

• To act as clinical supervisor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
• Ensure junior colleagues are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
• To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
• To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Administration:

• To follow good medical practice standards in documenting all assessments of patients and to share necessary information with other health professionals.
• To provide reports on time.
• To ensure that all letters and summaries are checked and sent promptly to referring GPs, other colleagues, and agencies.
• The post holder will ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of all clinical activity.
• The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.

Leadership:

• To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
• To actively promote professional integrated health working, internally and externally.
• To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
• To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
• To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
• To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
• Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
• Lead compassionately on the evolution of services.
• Engage patients and staff in the development of services

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Experience in the management of a broad range of physical disorders in older adults
• Application Form
• Interview At least 4 years of full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time basis) of which at least 2 years will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
• Application Form
• Interview Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

• Experience in general medicine

Experience
Essential

• Good knowledge of the biological, psychological and social determinants of physical and mental health disorders and evidence-based management interventions.
• Application Form
• Interview
• Up to date knowledge of recent DH documentation and NICE Guidelines.

Desirable

• Evidence of change management skills

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.

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