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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Good Communication Skills
- Skills
Record of Teaching at under and post graduate levels
- Skills
Record of Completed audit projects
- Skills
An understanding of Clinical Governance
- Skills
To have the ability and willingness to teach at all levels
- Skills
Team player
- Skills
Patient focused
- Skills
Adaptable to change
- Skills
Problem Solver
- Knowledge
A broad range of knowledge in other relevant disciplines
- Knowledge
Excellent knowledge in Geriatric medicine and acute medicine
- Experience
Experience in performing clinical audit
- Experience
Ability to critically assess published research and incorporate it into clinical practice where appropriate
- Qualifications
A higher specialist training scheme in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
- Qualifications
Wide experience in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine
- Qualifications
MRCP UK
Desirable
9 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Evidence of multidisciplinary teaching
- Skills
Record of attendance at training for trainer courses
- Knowledge
Maintenance of a CPD diary or portfolio
- Experience
NHS complaint handling
- Experience
Publication record in field of GIM, or Geriatrics
- Experience
Critical incident reporting
- Experience
Training in and experience of appraisal
- Experience
Risk management Training
- Qualifications
Higher Degree i.e MSc, PhD or equivalent
Job overview
The successful candidate will rotate between an acute inpatient ward (max 13 beds) and the Front Door Frailty Team based in ED, delivering CGA in collaboration with the wider MDT, with a view to avoid unnecessary admissions and re presentation to hospital in frail older adults.
You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist Register for Geriatric and General Medicine or within 6 months of obtaining CCT.
Main duties of the job
- Day to day clinical care of inpatients on base ward
- Lead daily board rounds and twice weekly MDMs on base ward
- Daily review of new and sick patients on base ward
- Attend family meetings on base ward
- Complete administrative work relevant to your clinical commitment
- Participation in unselected general medical on call rota
- Participation in departmental teaching, clinical governance and service development
- Prospective cover for colleagues during periods of absence and flexibility to work across all OPS clinical areas as needed
- Provide advice to colleagues related to OPS
- Supervise the Front Door Frailty Team based in ED, screen the ED bedboard for appropriate patients, and provide a senior review to all patients seen by the team
- Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate training
Fulfill requirements for regular appraisal and revalidation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
10 PAs are based on 7.5 PA DCC programmed activities a week. 1.5–2.5 of this should be assigned to dictating letters, attending multidisciplinary team meetings, seeing relatives, reviewing results and attending case presentations. Includes time for lunch and travel.
- SPA is Core SPA. This includes medical audit, CPD and appraisal. Additional SPA is allocated for teaching, supervision of trainees, clinical governance, and service development, taking SPA to a total of 2.5.
There is an expectation of continued professional development (CPD) and a commitment to revalidation.
You will be provided with secretarial support and an adequately equipped office with IT facilities.
There is an on call frequency of 1:18 weekdays and 1:12 weekends for General Internal Medicine (0.85 PA). The offsite on call commences at 8pm, when the onsite daytime consultant AAU shift finishes. It finishes at 9am the following morning. There is a commitment to a post take ward round from 8am. This is 2 hours on a weekday morning covering <75yo only and 4.5 hours on a weekend day covering all admissions. There is an expectation that the consultant will be on site during weekend days for at least 9 hours to allow for the morning post take and then an afternoon/ evening mid take round. The weekend consultant staffing consists of two General Internal Medicine consultants, a Cardiology consultant, and a Gastroenterology consultant for urgent Endoscopy cases. There will be consideration of time off in lieu for weekend working.
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 in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Geriatric Medicine role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 29 Oct 2026.
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