Specialist Doctor

The Trust is looking to recruit to two new posts for Specialist Grades in Geriatric Medicine based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. These posts are aimed at existing doctors who have more than 12 years clinical experience, with at least 6 years at middle grade level or above in geriatric medicine.
The post holder will be a core member of a team of 8 substantive geriatricians.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience and support a dynamic forward-thinking department.
The post has been created to develop and consolidate new ways of working. The post holder will have the opportunity to work in wide variety of clinical areas (acute frailty, complex care wards, community interface). We are working with the community partners to develop virtual wards which will be an exciting new opportunity.
We run an acute frailty unit for patients meeting the frailty criteria to be reviewed by specialist teams within the multidisciplinary team.
There is a daily falls and frailty clinic which provides comprehensive geriatrics assessments to the patients referred by the primary care and community teams.
The geriatricians provide 8-8 telephone support to primary care.
The trust can support any sub-specialty interest within geriatrics (e.g. acute frailty, community interface, orthogeriatrics, osteoporosis, tilt table clinics, movement disorder clinics)
The post holder will be offered a mentor from within the trust. This may be from within the department or another speciality, + Support and further develop the geriatric service within
the Trust
+ Participate in the frailty on-call Rota at QEH
+ Be an advocate for the care of older people within the
organization.
+ Lead, support and mentor junior medical staff within
the department and ensure training requirements are
met

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

The post is full time (10 PAs) and based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich
A formal job plan will be agreed between the post holder and their Clinical or Divisional Director
within three months of their commencement date.
The on-call rota is 1 in 10 evenings (4-8pm) and weekends 8am-8pm, covering frailty
admissions. There is currently no overnight on-call commitment. The out of hours commitment
equates to 1.5 PA. An afternoon off per week and an early finish are offered to compensate
for this and maintain 10 PAs.
For any additional work beyond this additional time off or remuneration would be offered.
The job plan will be divided into direct clinical care (DCC) 8.5 PA (including on call 1.5 PA, and
administration 0.5PA) and supporting professional activities (SPA)1.5 PA.
This structure will be reviewed in the annual job planning process.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.