# Locum Consultant Geriatrician - GEMINI > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-geriatrician-gemini/dacdbd08-a26f-4a8b-b7a9-cf76be32e34f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-geriatrician-gemini/dacdbd08-a26f-4a8b-b7a9-cf76be32e34f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** East Surrey Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum (depending on experience) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months ((joining weekend on-call rota)) - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T14:30:47.954Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Redhill/Surrey_Sussex_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Medicine_Elderly/Medicine_Elderly-v8334165 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8334165?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### Locum Consultant Geriatrician - GEMINI The geriatric medicine team at Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) is expanding and the future is exciting. We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Geriatrician to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team. We have recently developed our 5 day frailty SDEC service and are now expanding it to cover 7 days. We are also part of the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) trial site and part of Surrey East which hosts one of the national Frailty collaborative hubs. We are looking for a locum consultant colleagues to join our wonderful team. This post will work within our already established GEMINI team and current substantive consultants in post. This team uses an evidence-based approach to develop services which integrate medicine for the elderly into acute medicine, emergency medicine, surgery and the community. The GEMINI team currently support the management of patients in ED, frailty SDEC and in-patient elderly care wards. ### Main duties of the job We are now expanding this provision, and these new posts will be instrumental in supporting the development of this service. This will ensure we can run a frailty SDEC 7 days a week with direct admissions from GP referrals and SeCAMB as well as supporting wider in reach into all areas of the hospital where our group of patients need support from our service. It also means that we can align our developing service with the emerging neighbourhood model and future increase in community geriatric provision. We are also currently recruiting a number of ACPs and AHPs to support this service development. We are therefore looking for flexible, passionate team members, that are not limited by perceived boundaries in healthcare systems, and keen to work in an innovative environment. We welcome informal enquiries and visits. If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact: Dr Sinead Henderson, Clinical Lead Elderly Medicine. Email: sineadhenderson@nhs.net. For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities. Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### General **Essential** - - Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role - - A complete and accurate application - - Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement - - Evidence of essential experience for role - - Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role - - Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours - - Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification - - Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration ## Documents - [jd (pending approval) (pdf, 435.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10657477) - [our organisation values (pdf, 247.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2213) - [trust statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 334.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2214) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.