Consultant Geriatrician - Acute
| Posting date: | 15 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, E11 1NR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9259-25-1145 |
Summary
The posts offer an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric Medicine. In particular, this post will enable the post-holder to participate in reshaping local acute frailty services delivery and contribute to the departmental 5-year strategy plan. Whipps Cross Acute Frailty Service is well-established and considered an example of outstanding practice by the CQC in their last inspection in 2019. Healthwatch Waltham Forest rated the inpatient Acute Frailty Unit as Outstanding on their last visit in 2020. The post-holder will have the opportunity to work with a motivated multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding care and meet the dynamic needs of an expanding older population in the borough. This post also forms part of the redevelopment of Geriatric Medicine at Whipps CrossUniversity Hospital and gives the post-holder a unique opportunity to collaborate in theredevelopment of the hospital itself. You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist.Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.