Trust Doctor (ST3 equivalent) in Geriatric Medicine | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,909 - £61,825 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, E11 1NR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7180538/259-MED0733WXH-A |
Summary
The post provides a good educational opportunity and if the postholder is interested they will be able to gain audit, research, or teaching experience.
You must hold a current and full registration with the General Medical Council and have experience across a broad range of Medical Subspecialties. A full MRCP is essential for this post.
Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being re-developed to be a centre of excellence for Geriatric Medicine. The department provides for a broad spectrum of sub-specialty areas including Frailty, Acute Geriatrics, Ortho-Geriatrics, Surgical Liaison, Psychiatry Liaison, outpatients, and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Clinics and rehabilitation medicine. The department regularly sees a rich mixture of pathology and complex psycho-social issues. The local population contains a significant level of frailty with high rates of dementia and associated delirium.
Informal discussions are encouraged, and you are invited to contact Dr Rowlandson Pratt, Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Lead on0208 539 5522 or via email: rowlandson.pratt1@nhs.net
Please be advised that the vacancy advertisement may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received therefore, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment
The main duties of the post are:
- To care for patients in the clinical area and arrange the on-going patient care
- To attend daily ward or board rounds (consultant-led at least twice weekly)
- To be responsible for keeping of medical case-notes, ordering, and interpreting investigations, writing electronic summaries, and making referrals to other specialties
- To ensure that discharge summaries are written out promptly and accurately
- To interact with members of the multidisciplinary team in the interests of patients
- To flexibly support service needs as required
- Supervising and performing medical procedures
- Participate in clinical meetings, and governance meetings including M&M and academic sessions
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Study, teaching and training
Study leave entitlement is equivalent to Higher Medical Trainee allocation (pro rata). 2. Research
Extensive Research facilities exist at Barts Health NHS Trust and research will be actively encouraged within the Clinical Academic Group and in conjunction with other departments of the hospital and college.
Equal Opportunities
The post-holder must carry out all duties and responsibilities with due regard for Barts Health NHS Trust Equal Opportunities Policy.
Salary and Conditions of Service
The post is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Service of Barts Health NHS Trust, and to the National Health Service Pension Regulations.
Due to the nature of the work in this post, it is exempt from the provision of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemption Order 1975). Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, including those which, for other purposes are "spent" under the provisions of the Act. Failure to disclose such information may result in dismissal or disciplinary action.
This advert closes on Sunday 11 May 2025