Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatric Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Fixed Term Consultant
- Contract
- 24 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (plus on call)
- Job ref
- 357-MPR-285-25-QIA500
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pilgrim Hospital, Boston
- Town
- Boston
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Fixed Term HCOP Consultant
NHS Medical & Dental: Fixed Term Consultant
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
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Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a forward-thinking Consultant in Health Care of the Older Person medicine to join our dedicated team and help us to deliver outstanding services to our patients, developing enhanced care for frail older people and alternatives to hospital admission, such as virtual frailty ward.
In-patient care is undertaken predominantly on Wards 6a and 6b, which have 28 beds each. This post will input into the care of older people’s wards, the orthopaedic wards and the Frailty services, but the service model is in continuous evolution in order to meet the demands of the population. The successful post holder would be expected to participate fully in innovating the service for older people.
The Frailty team work supporting the emergency department and IAC and have a dedicated SDEC (Same day Emergency care) unit. They also support Frailty Virtual ward.
The team provide General Geriatric clinics and specialized clinics such as Falls, Movement disorders and unspecific symptom pathway input and collaboration with neighbourhood teams in the East Coast.
All members of the department meet monthly in HCOP pan-Trust Clinical Governance to discuss various aspects of the service, review complaints and consider new proposals.
Main duties of the job
Applicants should demonstrate extensive experience in health care of the older person and the new appointee will be encouraged to develop specialist interests. The post holder will be required to:
• Participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
• Take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
• Participate in local mandatory training, yearly appraisal and revalidation
• Contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development
• Contribute to the development of clinical quality and effectiveness in other clinical areas where these overlap with developments in Stroke
Working for our organisation
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) is one of the largest acute trusts in the country. Through four main hospitals and four additional hospitals where we provide some services, we provide a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to the 700,000 people of Lincolnshire.
We provide a wide range of healthcare services delivered by 7,800 highly trained staff and volunteers. Our services cost over £400m each year to provide and we invest around £18m each year in improving our clinical services by replacing and upgrading our medical equipment, modernising our estate and facilities and improving our information and technology infrastructure. In an average year, we treat more than 180,000 A&E patients, nearly half a million outpatients and almost 100,000 inpatients.
For more information on what it’s like to live and work in Lincolnshire please see the link below.
https://www.beinlincolnshire.com/
We offer the following unique only to Lincolnshire
Direct links to the new £21 million Lincoln Medical School via Lincoln University
The facility includes:-
- 2 x 120 capacity lecture theatres
- Seminar space
- Café and social learning space
- Library, Science Library and Project Library
- Anatomy Suite and Clinical Skills Suite
- The entire building is designed to meet BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for further information regarding the Fixed Term HCOP Consultant post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC Registered with a licence to practice
- MRCP or Equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Additional post-graduate qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience of geriatric and general medicine.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of telemedicine
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of developing a high quality, high performance service
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
- Laura Odlin
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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