Job overview
We are recruiting a Locum consultant geriatrician for a 12 month fixed term period (ending 7th Feb 2027) to join our exciting and rapidly expanding Frailty Team delivering integrated holistic care spanning both acute and community settings. The post holder’s primary duty will be to develop pathways and enhance the reactive frailty services, UCR, virtual wards, ED front door and Mary Seacole Unit. In addition, the post holder will have opportunities to support the integrated frailty service and be involved in providing reactive and proactive care across the acute and community areas. There will also be responsibilities in supervising and teaching trainees and medical students, as well as nursing and allied health professionals of the MDT. The post holder will drive forward developments, improving the quality of care delivered to patients with a focus on maximising peoples’ independence and supporting their return to their usual place of residence wherever possible. You will receive peer support from fellow Consultants working across the frailty services in Epsom General Hospital and Surrey Downs Health and Care and be fully supported by an integrated management team helping you to driveforward change.
We request that successful applicants must have relevant UK and NHS experience in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine with full GMC registration and already have CCT, or be within 6 months of obtaining their CCT.
Main duties of the job
Consultant geriatrician as part of the Frailty Team covering the following clinical areas:
1. Community reactive services (UCR and VW) – providing clinical advice and leadership to the MDT. This may involve home visits of complex patients and liaising with other colleagues in the acute hospital, community teams and primary care. The post holder will provide presence at the team huddles and hold clinical responsibility for the case load (varies between 10-12 UCRs and 50-70 patients on VW). This is supported by a team that can be made up of GPs, specialty doctors, trainees, ACPs, PAs, nurses and therapists.
2. Emergency Department (ED) – provision of clinical leadership within with Front Door Team. The post holder will be supported by the MDT, including junior doctors with the expectation that they will review approximately 4 new patients per day. There is also an expectation to in-reach to other medical wards to support early discharge of patients that could be managed on the virtual ward.
3. Mary Seacole Unit - The post holder will provide leadership for junior colleagues as well as all other members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) present on the ward.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.
Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:
4. The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
5. CSH Surrey
6. Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
7. Surrey Council County
Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.
It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.
In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The principal duty of this post is to provide a comprehensive clinical service to patients.
8. To at all times, comply with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time.
9. To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
10. To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
11. 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 Clinical Director.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
12. Hold a medical qualification
13. Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e. MRCP or equivalent.
14. Entry onto the Specialist Register for GMC for GIM and Geriatric Medicine or be within six months of obtaining CCT
15. Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT, CESR & EU Community Rights
Desirable criteria
16. MD, PhD or equivalent higher degree or evidence of relevant research.
Research Experience
Essential criteria
17. Ability to contribute to change management.
18. Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
19. Ability to critically review research.
Desirable criteria
20. Publications in peer review journals.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
21. High standard of clinical skill and expertise in the specialty.
22. Experience of working within a community geriatrics service.
23. Comprehensive experience in managing patients with all aspects of geriatric and general medical problems.
24. Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team.
25. Experience of acute medicine, including leading acute unselected medical takes.
Desirable criteria
26. Experience of service development.
Aware of national policies, quality initiatives
Essential criteria
27. Understanding of national policies relevant to acute and community care of elderly patients.
Desirable criteria
28. Evidence of participation in quality initiatives relating to the care of elderly patients.
Management & Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
29. Audit/Research
30. Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT.
31. Supervision of post graduate trainees.
32. Personal time management skills.
33. Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
34. Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development.
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
35. Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate trainees.
36. Ability to teach clinical skills.
Desirable criteria
37. Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates / post graduates.
38. Experience of supervising junior doctors.
39. Experience of teaching Lay groups and other staff groups.
40. Ability to supervise postgraduate research.
41. Educational supervision accreditation.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
42. Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
43. Ability to work in partnership to deliver a patient centred service.
44. Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement.
45. Good interpersonal skills.
46. Enquiring, critical approach to work.
47. Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
48. Ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients and relatives.
49. Commitment to continuing professional development
50. Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities to local, regional or national levels.
51. Willingness to work with consultant colleagues and management to maintain and develop a comprehensive service.
52. Able to make own arrangements for travel between working sites.
Our mission: ‘to put the patient first by delivering great care to every patient, every day.’
There’s never been a better time to join the Epsom and St Helier team. Our hospitals are facing a bright and busy future, and our staff have a proven track record in providing high quality, compassionate care for our patients.
Boasting incredible staff benefits and dedicated training schemes, working for us will not only take your career forward, but could help to transform the lives of our patients and visitors.
We offer all employees some fantastic staff benefits, and are the only hospitals in Surrey to offer staff the London high cost area supplement. Our hospitals also benefit from great locations, so whether you're attracted to the bright lights of the city or the countryside of Epsom Downs, both are within easy reach.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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For new entrants into the NHS, your pay under the Agenda for Change or Medical & Dental Pay Bands, will normally be set at the minimum of the pay band as advertised.
If you apply for this position and do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.
ESTH values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.
Internal applicants from underrepresented minority groups are encouraged to seek development support such as work shadowing and interview skills coaching.