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- St Thomas' Street
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- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Locum Consultant in Geriatrics & General Medicine
Closed for applications on: 25-Feb-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 25-Feb-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (p.a excl LZ)
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 p.a. excl. LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Acute and General Medicine
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Department of Ageing and Health
Directorate of Acute and General Medicine
Locum Consultant in Geriatrics and General Medicine
2 WTE posts (or more candidates if LTFT)
Advert
The Department of Ageing and Health is seeking to recruit 2 x new consultant to join our dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team of highly motivated and dedicated geriatricians to cover 6 – 12 months initially. Over recent years, the team has developed novel care pathways for older adults in the community, within the Emergency Floor and for patients on geriatric, medical and surgical wards. The advertised post will support the delivery of these services and offer exciting opportunities to further lead, develop and deliver a seamless service across hospital and community settings, integrating with primary care and social services.
The post has the opportunity to incorporate working in our front door service for frail older adults on the emergency floor, on a specialist ward based in the Older Persons’ Unit and in General Internal Medicine, as well as in the community and in peri-operative liaison service (POPS). There is opportunity to flex job planning to individual candidate’s subspecialty interests. LTFT applicants welcomed and supported. The post holder will contribute to the General Internal Medicine rota which includes on-site weekend and evening working.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s & St Thomas’ and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country. The hospitals have a long history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a reputation for excellence and innovation. We are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Department of Ageing and Health is seeking to recruit a new consultant to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team of highly motivated and dedicated geriatricians.
The post has been established to support a growing need for geriatricians within several key areas of the work at the trust:
- In the acute medical pathway (including the front door service on the emergency floor, in the medical outreach service, and on our specialist wards for older people)
- In the community working with our primary care colleagues in delivering locality based geriatric medicine (including work within rehabilitation units, care homes and with the GSTT@home service)
This is an exciting time to join the department. The acute medical pathway is undergoing radical change to ensure a consultant led service is delivered 7 days a week during extended day hours and 365 days a year. The department of Ageing and Health contributes to this by providing a front door service 7 days a week within our Acute Older Persons Unit (AOPU) which is co-located with the emergency floor. Geriatricians also participate in the acute GIM emergency floor rota and lead firms on general medicine wards and in the older persons’ unit.
Similarly there have been exciting new developments in the range of community services. The acute trust is merged with therapies, community services and palliative care to form the Integrated Care Strategic Business Unit, aligning financial support and management to clinical priorities. This has allowed development of the GSTT@home team, delivering acute medical care to those that do not require hospital admission. Furthermore, the department is committed to supporting local care home residents and provides bespoke support to care homes across Lambeth and Southwark.
The post includes opportunities to work across these services and the job plans may include sessions in any of the above, depending on applicant preference and day to day negotiated service requirements.
The wide reaching footprint of Ageing and Health also includes the award winning GOLD service for oncology patients, the POPS service providing CGA based approach to emergency and elective surgical patients and a comprehensive range of outpatient services.
All posts include working alongside multidisciplinary teams to develop and deliver patient centred services. In all roles, the successful candidates will be expected to be intellectually flexible and able to look beyond existing structures, ways of working and traditional care boundaries in order to produce more effective and innovative service delivery. The post-holder will need to adapt quickly to new situations and provide high level clinical care to complex patients both at home, in a variety of community settings and within Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. All consultants in the department are expected to share out-of-hours rotas. The post-holder will be expected to take an active role in in the teaching programmes of the department.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly so that we can offer services to patients in the evenings and at weekends. We regard this flexibility as essential if we are to continue to provide first class patient care in the future. As a result, any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern of working in the future if required and in accordance with the provisions of the new Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust consultant contract.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with entry on the Specialist Register
- CCT in General Internal Medicine (GIM) with entry on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCST.
Desirable criteria
- Experience as an NHS consultant (locum/acting up or substantive)
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in General Medicine
- Comprehensive clinical experience in Geriatric Medicine.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in ED or a front door service for older adults.
- Experience in leading own clinics
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
- Communication: Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability: Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills: Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge & skills in CGA in inpatients and outpatients
- Evidence of initiative and leadership skills
- Previous community experience
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivery of undergraduate teaching and postgraduate training
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification. Advanced teaching experience (e.g. organising training days, involvement in regional or national teaching)
Audit, Quality Improvement & Research:
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles of audit and quality improvement in clinical practice
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Ability to carry out audit and/or quality improvement work
- Evidence of original research and/or an MD or PhD.
- Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
Other
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council.
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical risk management.
Desirable criteria
- Appraisal training. Evidence of contributing to quality improvements programmes for older adults
Management skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical guideline development.
- Staff Management: Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
- Management training or qualification.
- Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services.
- Finance: Knowledge of finance and budgets.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Grace Walker and Fionna Martin
- Job title
- Service Leads for Ageing & Health Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071882092
- Additional information
For an informal discussion and more information, please contact Dr Tania Kalsi (Service Leads Dept. Ageing and Health) email: [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
or Dr James Fleet Clinical Director for Acute & General Medicine ([email protected])
Short-listed candidates are encouraged to visit the hospital before being interviewed. Earlier visits prior to short-listing are also welcome. Arrangements can be made by contacting Rudo Mupambawahle, Deputy General Manager for Acute & General Medicine [email protected] or phone 020 7188 7188 ext 52242.
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