Overview
We are looking to recruit a Locum Consultant in General Medicine at St Helier Hospital to work with our General Medicine team and engage closely as a downstream component of our Acute Medicine Department. Under close management and leadership of the Clinical Director, the general medicine service is undergoing development, and an additional appointee will play a crucial role in ensuring the continued success we have enjoyed over recent months in keeping with these developments.
The role is designed to provide a key interface with the Acute Medical Team with the potential to become an active component of the acute admissions pathway, helping to streamline patient flow through the AMU ward and onto specialty inpatient areas. This will help to maintain excellent patient care pathways with a focus on safe and effective high patient turnover.
These services represent a modernisation of our acute medical pathways, and the participating consultant should work closely with our speciality physicians to strive for excellent patient care. We recognise the importance of bringing specialty excellence into this service and as such wish to attract candidates looking to also maintain a specialty skill base.
Key Responsibilities
* To at all times, comply with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time.
* To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
* To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
* To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Medical Director.
* On commencement to ensure personal attendance at the Trust’s corporate Induction (or arranged Consultant Induction).
* To participate in the Trust’s Statutory & Mandatory training programme.
* To be responsible for the Clinical Management of in and out patients under your care.
* Review ward referrals either in person or to give advice to resident doctor members of the team.
About the Trust
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
On Call Arrangements
The post holder will be required to participate in the on call rota on a 1:16 basis. The on call rota is currently defined as Category B.
* Category A: this applies where the consultant is typically required to return immediately to site when called or has to undertake interventions with a similar level of complexity to those that would normally be carried out on site, such as telemedicine or complex telephone consultations;
* Category B: this applies where the consultant can typically respond by giving telephone advice and by returning to work later, except in an unforeseen emergency.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Feb 2026.
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