Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatric Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 359-MSD7736061
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £100,870 - £111,441 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Grade Doctor in Geriatric Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
Job overview
This is a post that forms part of the Trust’s commitment to improve the care of acutely ill medical patients. The post is based at Tunbridge Wells Hospital but may in the future also include responsibilities at Maidstone Hospital or in a Community Geriatrics role.
Main duties of the job
The primary roles are to help develop the Acute Frailty service at Tunbridge Wells and support the care of in-patients with Frailty admitted with acute Surgical and Orthopaedic illness. The successful candidate would work with twelve consultant Geriatricians within the Trust providing a comprehensive range of secondary medical care to older patients.
Candidates with suitable experience would be expected to work as part of an out of hours rota in Geriatric Medicine or General Internal Medicine.
Although this is a full time post, candidates wanting to work less than full time or flexibly are welcomed.
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
- To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
- To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
- To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
- To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
- To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
- To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
- To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
- To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.
- To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
- To provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP(UK) or equivalent
- Registered with the GMC
- Broad experience in Geriatric Medicine
Desirable criteria
- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, eg BSc, MSc MD, PhD or equivalent
- SCE Geriatric Medicine
- Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understand the principles of audit
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit projects
Research
Essential criteria
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Christine Overy
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager Acute Medicine & Geriatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07542318547
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