# Locum Consultant Gerontologist with Interest in Acute Frailty

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Kent
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Fixed term
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is a locum consultant gerontologist position with a focus on acute frailty at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The trust offers same-day emergency care from a 12-patient clinical unit and has a wide multi-disciplinary team. The postholder will work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for frail, older patient groups from Gerontology services.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners

- Carry out teaching, examination, and accreditation duties

- Contribute to CPD and clinical governance initiatives

- Work with colleagues to maintain staff productivity and job satisfaction

- Participate in audit programs, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programs, and Learning from Deaths

- Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty

**Requirements:**

- Registerable medical qualification

- Full MRCP

- Full Registration with GMC

- Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment

- Wide experience in all aspects of Gerontology and General (Internal) Medicine

- Experience in day-to-day organisation of Gerontology services in a busy Teaching Hospital

- Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills

- Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams

- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit

- Experience of clinical research

- Publication of relevant review articles or case reports

- Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation

## Skills

### Required
- Gerontology
- General Medicine
- Leadership
- Medical Audit
- Clinical Research
- Teaching

### Nice to have
- Higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)
- Management course and/or qualification
- Audit Publications
- Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of Gerontology
- Teaching skills course/qualification

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