Locum Consultant Geriatrician

This is a 1 year Fixed-Term Maternity Leave Cover 10PA post (8 DCC, 2 SPA) based at St Mary’s Hospital Campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Medicine for the Elderly (MfE) services have evolved over recent years at St Mary’s Hospital so there is now a multiprofessional Acute Frailty Team and ED liaison service, in addition to the 48 acute MFE beds across 3 wards, outpatients and liaison work with multiple community services in West London. The acute frailty team requires daily consultant input and this post allows for year-round provision of acute frailty input on admissions wards and into the Emergency Department, and further to allow the development of Frailty OPRAC at the SMH site.

Start date: TBC

Contract Duration: 12 months

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Frailty service development is at the heart of the Trust's planning and operations, and the addition of this post holder will allow not only provide the requisite level of cover to maintain a constant service, but also the capacity to design and pilot improvements within the team.  There is an active programme of audit and QUIP within and around the department and an active working group with the ED who have an appointed frailty lead.  The post holder will be able to participate on local and regional working groups and CQUINs – we are currently signed up to the Frailty Assessment CQUIN in ED.