Locum Consultant in Elderly Medicine

Enherts Tr; Stevenage; Remote; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust in Stevenage is seeking a Locum Consultant in Elderly Care for a fixed-term 12-month appointment, based predominantly at the Lister Hospital. The post includes 10 programmed activities per week with a 1.25PA on-call commitment.

Part-time and job-share applicants are welcome; the job plan also includes 2 Supporting Programmed Activities per week and development of outpatient services to meet population needs.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practise.
• Evidence of up-to-date training and fitness to practise.
• Royal College Fellowship or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality patient-centred care.
• Shared responsibility for day-to-day management of the service.
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service.
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary meetings.

Skills

Discharge planning

Clinical governance

Teaching

MDT meetings

Education

GMC registration

RCP equivalent

Royal College Fellowship

Job description

Main area Geriatric Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Pending Substantive recruitment) Hours 10 sessions per week (Full time - 10PA per week with contribution to acute medicine on-call rota) Job ref 361-M&D-7924077

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Our mission is:

Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:

To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

EastandNorthHertfordshirehaveafantasticopportunityavailablefora Locum ConsultantinElderly Care.

This is a fixed term appointment pending Substantive Recruitment, based predominantly at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The posts compriseof10programmedactivities(PAs)includinganon-callcommitmentof1.25PA,butparttimeand job share applicants are welcome to apply. The Job Plan also includes 2 Supporting Programmed Activities per week.

The department is looking to innovate further with development of its outpatient offering to adapt to the changingneedsofthepopulation.Thisisevidencedbytheincreasingintegrationwithcommunityclinics and services, enabling greater choice and flexibility for our patients.

Main duties of the job

• Maintenanceofhigh-qualitypatientcentered care
• Sharedresponsibilityfortheday-to-daymanagementof the
• Teachingandtrainingwithinthemultidisciplinary service
• Activeinvolvementinmultidisciplinaryteammeetings and

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Training

• Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practice.
• RCP or equivalent
• Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
• Royal College Fellowship

Previous Experience

• Broad range of experience in Elderly and general medicine. In particular: • Experience of complex care and discharge planning • Fully competent in broad range of medical issues in older and general medical patients.
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Interest/experience in provision of whole hospital comprehensive geriatric assessment

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [e-mail]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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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.