Specialist in Geriatrics in London

We are looking to recruit a Specialist in Geriatrics who is committed to excellence in Geriatrics to join a pro-active team with an excellent clinical reputation in providing a range of services within the hospital and the community. Our team delivers a high quality needs related service to frail and older patients wherever they are. The team uses their knowledge and experience to lead and influence the development of services for the frail and elderly both within the Trust and in the community. You will also have an opportunity to gain valuable experience of service transformation and development.

The successful candidates will be joining a well organised department providing a wide range of services at specialty and sub-specialty level. We work together collaboratively and supportively and we are always looking to improve the care for frail, elderly patients across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

• To assist in the provision and development of a safe, effective and efficient geriatrics service and support Trust and Network, in the aim to provide the best possible care to patients.
• Provision of a service, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.
• Cover for colleagues' authorised absences.
• Out-of-hours responsibilities, including participation in the consultant on-call rota for Geriatrics.
• Participate in service development and business planning.
• Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff.
• Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally.
• Participating in medical audit, Clinical Governance processes and CPD.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Person Specification

• Qualifications
  • Essential: Full registration (with a license to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC).
  • Essential: Full MRCP.
  • Desirable: Geriatric Medicine SCE.
• Experience
  • Essential: Ability to work autonomously to a level of defined competencies within Geriatric medicine and be an expert decision maker having overall responsibility for patient care.
  • Must have completed at least twelve years full time post graduate training (or equivalent gained on a part time or flexible basis) with a minimum of six years of Geriatric Medicine and associated relevant specialties.
  • Must have also completed a minimum of five years at middle grade level within medicine or geriatrics.
  • Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi-professional team including senior trainees.
  • Previous experience in a multidisciplinary setting.
  • Desirable: Experience within the specialty in the UK.
• Management & Administrative experience
  • Essential: Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload.
  • Desirable: The potential to develop management and leadership skills.
• Teaching
  • Desirable: Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role.
• Research
  • Essential: Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice.
  • Desirable: Publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Other
  • Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
  • Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit.
  • Ability to participate in specialty out of hours rota (weekends).
  • Desirable: Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels.