Job summary
- Main area
- Geriatric Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 297-7368348
- Employer
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- Gateshead
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/09/2025
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Geriatric Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
In the event of excessive applications being received this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible
IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.
All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.
Job overview
We are delighted to have the opportunity to appoint a full-time Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. Applicants who wish to work less than full-time would also be considered. The post will be run for 12 months to as cover maternity leave within the department.
This post is available to enhance and support the Care of the Elderly wards within the Jubilee Wing. The posts will be for 10 programmed activities (PAs) per week with an additional 0.71 PAs available for programmed specialty weekend work. The appointee would support the current Care of the Elderly medicine service and work alongside established Consultant Geriatricians whose interests include falls and syncope, Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis, rehabilitation & community geriatrics and acute frailty.
Alongside our inpatient work, the Care of the Elderly department.
Interviews will be held on Monday 8th September 2025.
Main duties of the job
Alongside our inpatient work, the Care of the Elderly department operates an Acute Frailty service based in the hospital’s Accident and Emergency department. A dedicated multi-disciplinary team of Consultant Geriatrician, Specialist Frailty Practitioner Nurse, Frailty Fellow Doctor, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Therapy Assistant and Pharmacist, all work together to assess and manage older, frail patients admitted under medicine. Daily morning ward rounds by the Consultant Geriatrician are complimented by the multi-disciplinary teams review of additional patients throughout the day. The service maintains close links with community teams, the COTE virtual ward and the COTE back of house wards to optimise patient experience and reduce length of stay.
We also run a COTE Virtual Ward. Here we provide Consultant Geriatrician led care to patients in their own homes with acute medical needs. Patients can be referred to the virtual ward from the community and secondary care. The Virtual ward team includes Specialist Frailty Nurses, an Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist, all of whom can visit patients in their own homes. The Consultant Geriatrician leads the care of the patients through two daily MDT meetings, reviews of potential admissions to the ward in the community and in hospital and home visits to assess and manage patients in the ward.
Working for our organisation
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The appointment will be for 10 programmed activities, 8.5 PAs of Direct Clinical care (DCC) and 1.5 PAs of Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) for revalidation preparation, CPD, teaching, educational supervision and clinical governance. Job plans are subject to annual review as part of the annual appraisal and revalidation process and the amount of allocated SPA time may be adjusted in the future in accordance with the appointees’ teaching, research and managerial duties.
The proposed job plans are included below, however we are open to reviewing this on the basis of part-time working requests.
The appointed Consultant will be expected to work with managers and professional colleagues in the efficient running of services and will share with consultant colleagues the medical contribution to management. They will be expected to observe the Trusts agreed policies and procedures, and to follow the approved standing orders, financial instructions and standards of conduct. Where they manage employees of the Trust they will be expected to follow both national employment law and local personnel policies and procedures. They will be expected to make sure that there are adequate arrangements for hospital staff involved in the care of patients to be able to contact them when on call.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC Registration
- MRCP or Equivalent
- GMC Speciality Register in Geriatric Medicine or within 6 months of CCT
Skills and Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Evidence of partaking in multi-disciplinary team work
- Leadership skills
- Meets requirements of GMC Good Medical Practice
- Evidence of clinical audit participation
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialised training within Geriatric Medicine
- Wider experience of General Medicine
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
- Peter Brock
- Job title
- Consultant Geriatrician/Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 482 0000
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