2x Consultants in Geriatrics & General Medicine

The Department of Ageing and Health is a dynamic department right at the centre of Acute Medical, Surgical and Specialist Patient Services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. It has researched and developed many new service delivery models in Geriatric medicine, and as a consequence is an ideal place to work as a geriatrician. The department provides specialist services for older people within the Acute Trust and throughout Lambeth and Southwark supporting community services. In the Acute Trust services include its own inpatient unit at St Thomas' Hospital (Older persons unit (OPU)), participation in General medicine (acute emergency floor and general wards) and input across multiple areas by our liaison teams including POPS (surgery and orthopaedics) and GOLD (oncology). It has its own specialist outpatients based at Guys (OPAU) and a newly established front door Acute-OPU within the emergency floor. Most geriatricians also contribute to work as Locality
Geriatricians within Lambeth and Southwark community services.

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is made up of four of London's best-known teaching hospitals and employs over 13,650 staff and has over 2 million patient contacts a year. Our annual turnover is now £1.3 billion.

The Department of Ageing and Health is seeking to recruit 2 x substantive consultants to join our dynamic, enthusiastic and forward-thinking team of highly motivated and dedicated geriatricians. Ageing & Health has a number of innovative and award-winning services across a number of areas including geriatrician liaison (POPS, GOLD, COPS), acute frailty and in the community. The advertised posts will support the delivery of these services, in particular delivery of Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery (POPS) in thoracic surgery, front door service for frail older adults on the emergency floor, specialist Older Persons' Unit wards, in General Internal Medicine, as well as in the community.

The post holders will either contribute to an elderly medicine on call rota which includes on site weekend working in our Acute Older Persons Unit in the Emergency floor, or to the Acute General Medicine rota which includes on-site weekend and evening working., The Trust includes St Thomas' Hospital, Guy's Hospital, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals and both adult and children's community services in Lambeth and Southwark.

We provide a full range of hospital services for our local communities in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, as well as specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiothoracic, women's and children's services, kidney care and orthopaedics. We have one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest A&E departments in London. See www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk for further details.

Our reputation for safe, high quality care is among the best in the UK and we strive to put patients at the heart of everything we do. 'Barbara's Story' - a unique and moving staff training film to improve our care for patients with dementia - has been widely recognised as an example of best practice.