# Locum Consultant in Geriatrics (Acute)

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Whipps Cross University Hospital, part of the Barts Health NHS Trust Group, is looking for a full-time Consultant Geriatrician to join our Older People's Services (OPS) team based predominantly on the Whipps Cross Hospital site.

The post offers an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric Medicine.

The post-holder will have the opportunity to work with a motivated multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding care and meet the dynamic needs of an expanding older population in the borough.

**Main duties of the job**

- Participate in reshaping local acute frailty services delivery and contribute to the departmental 5-year strategy plan.

- Work with a motivated multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding care.

**Responsibilities**

- Hold full registration with the General Medical Council with license to practise.

- MRCP or Equivalent Specialist qualification.

- Higher specialist training in Geriatrics and G(I)Medicine.

- Broad experience in Geriatrics and G(I)M.

- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

- Experience of supervising medical staff.

- Ability to teach medical students and junior medical and nursing staff.

- Ability to manage staff and resources effectively.

- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs nurses and other agencies.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year.

- Fixed-term contract for 6 months.

**Requirements**

- Full GMC Registration with license to practice.

- Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.).

- Appropriate higher degree (e.g. MD, PhD or equivalent).

- Ability to organize and deliver a teaching programme.

- Experience in service development.

- Current ALS certificate.

**Selection process**

- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Skills

### Required
- Geriatrics
- G(I)M
- Multidisciplinary team work
- Medical staff supervision
- Teaching
- Staff management
- Effective communication

### Nice to have
- Research experience
- Higher degree (e.g. MD, PhD or equivalent)
- Teaching programme organisation
- Service development experience
- ALS certificate

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