Job summary
- Main area
- Elderly Care Medicine
- Grade
- YM72
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 220-039-AAC-EIM
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/04/2025
Employer heading

Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Surgical Liaison
YM72
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Job overview
Applications are invited for this substantive Consultant Geriatrician post at Whittington Health NHS Trust
You will work within the acute COOP service, providing consultant cover 3 days per week to one of the COOP wards for approx. 12 patients and contribute to the acute medical take on a 1 in 20 basis. You will support the surgical liaison service providing cover 2 days per week. You will also work to support one of our local nursing homes attending twice a month supporting the wider care home MDT.
You will have a broad training in Geriatric Medicine and General (Internal) Medicine and will have experience of multidisciplinary working in rehabilitation in acute and slow stream settings. You will be capable of handling the range of medical problems that occur within the setting of a district general hospital (DGH). You must be an effective team player and will be flexible in approaching new ways of working.
Applicants must have MRCP(UK) (or equivalent specialist qualification) and hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Geriatric Medicine and in General Internal Medicine, or be within six months of award of CCT, or equivalent, by date of interview.
Applicants must also be on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council (UK) with a Licence to Practise.
Interview date: 4th April 2025
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties of the post
The acute service:
The post holder will be responsible for continuing to develop the surgical liaison service at Whittington Health in collaboration with the current surgical liaison consultant. This is expected to include a daily presence on the surgical wards (general surgery and urology), attending surgical board rounds and reviewing elderly surgical patients. Time will also be allocated to support the surgical directorate in relevant quality improvement work and in the organisation of morbidity and mortality reviews. A clinic session is allocated each week and in time this is likely to become a pre-assessment clinic. The Pre-assessment MDT is a multi-disciplinary meeting prior to an OPD clinic run by anaesthetics. The successful applicant will attend the MDT and offer clinical input but will not be seeing patients in clinic at this stage (although this will be reviewed in the future). On average 10-12 cases are reviewed. Currently most surgical patients are admitted to Mercers Ward which has 16 beds. Inpatient liaison work on this ward will be supported by the surgical FY1s and FY2s predominantly. The postholder can expect to spend around half their clinical time in the liaison role. The post holder will be expected to see 20-25 surgical patients per ward round – a combination of new and follow ups. These are spread across the surgical ward (Mercers), Emergency Department & ITU. These patients will be under the care of the parent surgical team and the post holder will be offering a liaison service.
The remaining clinical time will be dedicated to the delivery of inpatient general geriatric care through a named bed base on Cloudesley Ward, shared with a second consultant. The bed base will be shared equitably (12 patients each). The aim is to ensure daily consultant review of patients on the elderly care wards between the two ward consultants. This will comprise two ward rounds a week and one short session to review new admissions. Each ward is staffed with two foundation trainees, a Core medical Trainee, a clinical teaching fellow and a specialty trainee.
The post-holder will contribute to the acute medical take and support the hospital’s commitment to providing a 7day acute cover model as recommended by the RCP, with compensatory time off, which is 5 DCC PAs per day for weekend and bank holiday 8am to 8pm working, as for the other physicians on the rota, subject to review depending on changes to national contracts.
The post holder will contribute to the Community Geriatrics Service by looking after 1 Islington care home which consists of 62 beds, visiting every 2 weeks to assess residents in line with our assessment criteria and working with the care home GP. He/she will also contribute to the monthly MDT at each home.
PAWS is part of the Proactive Frailty and Complex Care Team (PROFACCT) in Islington.
The PAWS service MDT reviews 10-15 new patients/week and about 10 follow up patients. The successful post holder will offer specialist geriatric input into the MDT meetings.
The post-holder will be provided with appropriate administrative support and office space.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details and a provisional timetable.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A medical degree and postgraduate qualifications in medicine (MRCP or equivalent)
- Full GMC registration
- CCT Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine or within 6 months of CCT date
Desirable criteria
- MD / PhD
Relevant experience/Special interest
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a geriatric surgical liaison service.
- Comprehensive experience in managing patients with all aspects of geriatric and general medical problems
- Experience of acute medicine, including leading acute unselected medical takes.
- Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in working in community settings.
- Experience of service development
Teaching/Education
Essential criteria
- Experience in undergraduate and multidisciplinary teaching
Desirable criteria
- Qualification as an educational supervisor
Research
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of research methodology
National policies, quality initiatives
Essential criteria
- Understanding of national policies relevant to acute and community care of elderly patients
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in quality initiatives relating to the care of elderly surgical patients
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to think and work flexibly
- Potential to develop management and leadership skills
- Experience and evidence of completion of audit loop
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rebecca Sullivan
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
- Telephone
- 020 7288 5286
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