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