Locum Consultant in Geriatric Medicine | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Epsom and Ewell; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Locum consultant geriatrician for a 12-month contract, ending on 7th Feb 2027. The role focuses on enhancing integrated holistic care within the rapidly expanding Frailty Team, supporting both acute and community services. Candidates must have relevant UK and NHS experience in Geriatrics, with full GMC registration and a CCT or close to obtaining it. This position offers opportunities for development and peer support in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Supportive management team

Opportunities for teaching and supervision

Qualifications

• Relevant UK and NHS experience in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine.
• Full GMC registration required.
• CCT or within 6 months of obtaining it.

Responsibilities

• Develop pathways and enhance frailty services.
• Provide clinical advice and leadership to the MDT.
• Lead junior colleagues as well as the MDT in clinical areas.

Skills

Geriatric and General Internal Medicine expertise

Clinical leadership

Teamwork and collaboration

Education

Full GMC registration

CCT in Geriatrics or nearing completion

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting a Locum consultant geriatrician for a 12 month fixed term period (ending 7th Feb 2027) to join our exciting and rapidly expanding Frailty Team delivering integrated holistic care spanning both acute and community settings. The post holder’s primary duty will be to develop pathways and enhance the reactive frailty services, UCR, virtual wards, ED front door and Mary Seacole Unit. In addition, the post holder will have opportunities to support the integrated frailty service and be involved in providing reactive and proactive care across the acute and community areas. There will also be responsibilities in supervising and teaching trainees and medical students, as well as nursing and allied health professionals of the MDT. The post holder will drive forward developments, improving the quality of care delivered to patients with a focus on maximising peoples’ independence and supporting their return to their usual place of residence wherever possible. You will receive peer support from fellow Consultants working across the frailty services in Epsom General Hospital and Surrey Downs Health and Care and be fully supported by an integrated management team helping you to drive forward change.

Qualifications

We request that successful applicants must have relevant UK and NHS experience in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine with full GMC registration and already have CCT, or be within 6 months of obtaining their CCT.

Clinical Areas

• Community reactive services (UCR and VW) – providing clinical advice and leadership to the MDT. This may involve home visits of complex patients and liaising with other colleagues in the acute hospital, community teams and primary care. The post holder will provide presence at the team huddles and hold clinical responsibility for the case load (varies between 10-12 UCRs and 50-70 patients on VW). This is supported by a team that can be made up of GPs, specialty doctors, trainees, ACPs, PAs, nurses and therapists.
• Emergency Department (ED) – provision of clinical leadership within with Front Door Team. The post holder will be supported by the MDT, including junior doctors with the expectation that they will review approximately 4 new patients per day. There is also an expectation to in-reach to other medical wards to support early discharge of patients that could be managed on the virtual ward.
• Mary Seacole Unit - The post holder will provide leadership for junior colleagues as well as all other members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) present on the ward.

Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
• CSH Surrey
• Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed – we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

Duties

• To at all times, comply with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time.
• To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
• To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Clinical Director.

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Dec 2025