Locum Consultant in Geriatric MedicineNHS

Job summary

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a dynamic and passionate a Locum Geriatric Consultant, who will join the existing team of supportive and dedicated Consultant colleagues, all of whom embrace Trust values.

Our shared ambition is to deliver outstanding clinical care, high-quality services and strive to improve the care of our patients in the boroughs of Richmond, Hounslow and the surrounding areas.

Main duties of the job

• Provide daily consultant-led care for patients on Kew Ward, ensuring timely assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and safe discharge.
• Maintain clinical responsibility for a cohort of approximately 17-20 inpatients.
• Undertake regular consultant ward rounds and board rounds to support effective patient flow and length-of-stay management.
• Review and provide specialist advice for medical outliers across the Trust and facilitate transfer to the most appropriate clinical area where required.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, family meetings, discharge planning discussions, and Best Interests Meetings.
• Supervise junior medical staff and provide senior clinical decision-making support.
• Review ward referrals and provide consultant advice for complex patients.
• Undertake administrative duties associated with inpatient care, clinical governance, and documentation.
• Participate in service development and quality improvement activities through dedicated Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) time.

Job description

General Responsibilities as Locum Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information.

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.