# Locum Consultant in Geriatric Medicine

**Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Isleworth
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a dynamic and passionate Locum Geriatric Consultant, who will join the existing team of supportive and dedicated Consultant colleagues.

The successful candidate will provide daily consultant-led care for patients on Kew Ward, ensuring timely assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and safe discharge. Key responsibilities include:

- Maintaining clinical responsibility for a cohort of approximately 17-20 inpatients

- Undertaking regular consultant ward rounds and board rounds to support effective patient flow and length-of-stay management

- Reviewing and providing specialist advice for medical outliers across the Trust

- Leading and participating in multidisciplinary team meetings, family meetings, discharge planning discussions, and Best Interests Meetings

- Supervising junior medical staff and providing senior clinical decision-making support

- Reviewing ward referrals and providing consultant advice for complex patients

- Undertaking administrative duties associated with inpatient care, clinical governance, and documentation

- Participating in service development and quality improvement activities through dedicated Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) time

The Trust offers a range of benefits, including:

- Competitive salary: negotiable, depending on experience (£113,565 - £150,569 per annum plus London Weighting allowance)

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

- Collaborative and supportive work environment

The Trust has over 6,000 members of staff and provides full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency, and children's services, in addition to a range of community-based services across London.

**Requirements:**

- CCT/equivalent in Geriatric medicine/Neurology/ Acute medicine (or within six months of CCT) or on the Specialist Register

- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice

- MRCP or equivalent

- Broad experience in Acute and General Medicine

- Teaching experience / willingness to teach medical, nursing & other staff

- Experience of audit / clinical research

**Desirable:**

- Higher degree e.g. PhD or MD

- Research experience

- Previous QIP experience

- Acute Internal Medicine SCE

- Understanding of the NHS and its organisation

- Undertaken a management course

- Completed publications in appropriate journal(s)

- Previous experience in Orthogeriatrics

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## Skills

### Required
- Geriatric medicine
- Neurology
- Acute medicine
- MRCP
- GMC Registration

### Nice to have
- PhD or MD
- Research experience
- QIP experience
- Acute Internal Medicine SCE
- Orthogeriatrics

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