Geriatrician FACT Elderly Amstelveen

GGZ inGeest is looking for a geriatrician for the FACT Elderly team, Amstelland and Meerlanden region. As a geriatrician, you provide crucial care to clients with cognitive disorders and psychiatric co-morbidity. The challenge lies in looking further at possibilities, to work together from a recovery-oriented perspective in small steps towards quality of life with the client and their loved ones, with the support of chain partners.

• The FACT elderly teams of GGZ inGeest focus on the treatment and recovery of people with severe psychiatric disorders (SMI) over the age of 65 with severe problems and dysfunction in multiple life domains. Elderly people with cognitive disorders, where psychiatric co-morbidity plays a role, are also treated. If necessary, the family is involved in the treatment.

• FACT elderly offers long-term care-dependent psychiatric clients treatment and support in all kinds of life areas in their own environment outside of the hospital. As a result, severely dysregulated chronic psychiatric clients can also live independently in the neighborhood (or in some cases in a RIBW) with the support of multidisciplinary FACT teams.

• Additionally, we support (re)participation in society. In this, we work together with other organizations to support the client as well as possible. The client receives extra help if necessary, and less help when possible.

• Work is carried out according to the F-ACT method: an intensive form of outpatient community-based treatment  from a recovery-oriented perspective by various people working together in one team. Our starting point remains to find connection with the goals and wishes of the client.

• Within FACT Elderly, work is performed in multidisciplinary teams consisting of a psychiatrist, geriatrician, healthcare psychologist, doctors in training to become psychiatrists or geriatricians, outpatient nurses, mental health professionals, and an expert by experience.

• Your tasks consist of performing diagnostics, treatment, and crisis intervention for the target group of elderly people with neuropsychiatric problems.

• As a lead practitioner, you hold ultimate responsibility for the care of this target group and you assist with questions from the team regarding somatic issues, and provide insight when cognitive problems are also present in this target group.

• In the context of the Mandatory Mental Health Care Act (Wet Verplichte GGZ), you are involved in requesting care authorizations. 

• Researching and maintaining cooperation with the nursing home sector within the network in the Amstelland region is an important part of your position.

• You shape the somatic screening in accordance with the guidelines.

• Two other geriatricians are employed within the two other FACT Elderly teams of GGZ inGeest, and there is mutual cooperation regarding the daily screening.

• You will be working in the FACT team Elderly Amstelveen at the Amstelmere location.

• You have completed additional training as a Specialist in Geriatric Medicine.

• You are BIG registered.

• You will receive a permanent employment contract immediately.

• The position is scaled in FWG 75 cao ggz.

• View all employment conditions.

Do you have substantive questions? Please contact Marieke Fortgens-Sillmann (department manager) via 06-14958320 or M.Fortgens@ggzingeest.nl.