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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Management Skills
Knowledge and understanding of the NHS and clinical governance
- Management Skills
Experience of working with managers to improve patient experience and service delivery
- Clinical Experience
Extensive medical experience at registrar or consultant level; competency to manage on-call emergencies at senior level
- Personal Attributes
Ability to lead, motivate, support and work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Personal Attributes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Personal Attributes
High professional and ethical standards
- Personal Attributes
Commitment to continuous professional development; attendance at relevant courses or meetings
- Personal Attributes
Regular participation in appraisal and evidence of reflective practice
- Personal Attributes
Basic computer/IT skills
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Recent involvement in clinical audit & quality improvement
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Understanding of clinical research
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Understanding of teaching principles for undergraduate, postgraduate and interdisciplinary learners
- Qualifications and Professional Training
MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
- Qualifications and Professional Training
Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for geriatric medicine and general internal medicine, through either: a) Completion of Specialist Training (CCT) - or be within 6 months of completion at the date of interview. b) Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) c) European Community Rights
Desirable
14 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Management Skills
Involvement in service development and enacting change
- Management Skills
Ability to lead clinical services
- Clinical Experience
Special interest in orthogeriatric medicine OR Special interest in community geriatrics OR Special interest in acute frailty
- Personal Attributes
Proven ability to organise and prioritise workload, delegating as appropriate
- Personal Attributes
Advanced communication skills
- Personal Attributes
Advanced leadership skills
- Personal Attributes
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
- Personal Attributes
Ability to balance competing pressures that come from holding multiple roles
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Relevant published papers in peer reviewed journals
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Involvement in ongoing research
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Experience in teaching, Particularly a multi-professional team
- Audit, Research and Teaching
Enthusiasm to develop research & educational opportunities
- Qualifications and Professional Training
Relevant higher degree (MD/PhD)
- Qualifications and Professional Training
Qualification in Medical Education
Job overview
We are looking for a Locum Consultant to join our team and provide expert senior decision-making is at the heart of successful patient care whether that is in the community, attending our ambulatory unit or following admission to the wards. If you want to make a difference to patients at the interface of primary and acute secondary care then we want to hear from you. There are opportunities for sessional AFU working, support to our virtual Frailty ward, ED in-reach and specialty input to MAU. If your skills and interests are towards inpatient care then we can work to create a job plan tailored to that: general geriatric medicine and subspecialty working are equally important in ensuring that frail patients get excellent care wherever they are admitted within the hospital.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached comprehensive advert, job description and person specification as full details of the main duties of the job role and timetable are available within this document.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached comprehensive advert, job description and person specification as this contains the full details of the advertised role.
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.
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This advert is for Locum Consultant Geriatrician with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust in Plymouth, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Geriatric Medicine role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Locum: 6 months. The application deadline is 03 Oct 2026.
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