Locum Consultant in Geriatric Medicine (POPS) | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109725 - £145478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 September 2025 |
| Location: | Hastings, TN37 7RD |
| Company: | ESHT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7423832/374-CQEB-1121 |
Summary
This is a new post and offers an exciting opportunity to join the innovative POPS team (Perioperative Older People Service). The team sits jointly with the Urology and General Surgery Teams.
Taking part in the on-call rota is optional for the post holder.
The POPS team provide preoperative assessment and optimisation for high-risk patients undergoing elective and emergency surgery and follow the patient through the surgical admission coordinating and delivering medical care, rehabilitation and discharge planning. It is a multidisciplinary team comprising consultants, clinical nurse specialists and therapists. The team will be fully embedded at ESHT, with established pathways of care, close collaboration with frailty, anaesthetic and surgical colleagues.
Please check the JD for main duties of the job.
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission (CQC), rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
The post holder will undertake Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments, Inpatient Ward Rounds for Frailty patients and take part in Service Development.
Please refer to the job description attached
This advert closes on Monday 8 Sep 2025
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