Trust Grade Doctor in Elderly Medicine

The post holders will be attached to Medicine for the Elderly for 6 months, during which time they will spend 4 months carrying out additional duties in General Medicine and 2 months gaining additional experience in Dermatology.

The posts are approved for specialty training in General Practice. Ward-based clinical commitments of the post are based exclusively at St Mary's Hospital.

The General responsibilities of post-holders are to:

• Daily to review all patients admitted in their ward areas and to supervise the FY1 and FY2's.
• Provide medical cross-cover to the all patients in the elderly care department where necessary
• To attend multidisciplinary meetings and lead these meetings in the absence of the consultant or registrar
• To review daily, dermatology inpatients (in addition twice weekly ward rounds with the SpR and attend and present patients at a weekly consultant ward round on a Thursday).
• To attend Dermatology outpatient clinics as specified on the timetable.
• To clerk in acute Dermatology admissions including organisation of investigations and handover to the on-call ward ST.
• To cover the on-call Dermatology bleep every Thursday afternoon (SpRs at teaching). ST not expected to see patients but to hand over referrals to the SpR on Friday morning.
• To take part in the General (Internal) Medical on call rota
• To teach junior medical/paramedical staff and Year 3 and Year 5 medical students of Imperial College School of Medicine.

On 1st October 2007, the UK's first Academic Healthcare Science Centre (AHSC) was established in Northwest London when merging the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust (Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte's and Charing Cross Hospitals) and St Mary's NHS Trust (St Mary's Hospital and Western Eye Hospital), and integrating with Imperial College London created Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The Trust is now the largest in the country with an annual turnover of over £700M.

See attached job description for full details on duties, key responsibilities, and role expectations.

• On GMC Register with license to practice
• MBBS or equivalent

• Evidence of achievement appropriate to level of appointment at ICHNT
• Must have at least completed Foundation training, IMT 1& 2 or equivalent
• MRCP Part 1 and 2 (written)
• Experience at SHO level in Elderly Medicine essential
• NHS work experience (not including observership

• Are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements

• Competent in performing and teaching basic clinical procedures
• Ability to manage safely, and appropriately elderly patients
• Ability to manage acutely unwell patients and escalate care where needed
• Aware of own limitations, consults senior colleagues appropriately

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experience £44,170 - £67,610 per annum +LDN Weighting + 1C banding