# Locum Consultant in Older People’s Services

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £54,499 to £67,325 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking to appoint a locum Consultant Physician/Geriatrician in Older People Services. This is a fixed-term position to cover maternity leave, offering a salary of £54,499 to £67,325 per annum.

The successful candidate will be based at Royal London Hospital, managing a proportion of patients independently, playing an active role in the multi-disciplinary team, and participating in discharge planning. They will also cover falls and general outpatient clinics.

Responsibilities include:

- Comprehensive geriatric assessment of patients

- Daily attendance of the base ward multidisciplinary board round

- Undertaking clinics on a regular basis

- Collaborating with colleagues to develop a service model in keeping with best practice

- Close working with colleagues in the emergency department, acute medicine, and specialist medicine

Requirements:

- Full registration with the General Medical Council with a license to practice

- Established career and training pathway within the NHS

- MRCP or equivalent specialist qualification

- Entry on the GMC Specialist register or eligibility for entry within 6 months

- Relevant CCT in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine or equivalent

Desirable qualifications include higher teaching degrees and research experience.

We welcome requests for flexible or less than full-time working.

## Skills

### Required
- Geriatric Medicine
- General Internal Medicine
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
- Multidisciplinary team working
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Higher teaching degree
- Higher Research Degree
- Prior experience of developing services in geriatric medicine

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