Consultant Geriatrician UHL

The Trust is looking to recruit to a substantive Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine, with an interest in Community Care, based at the University Hospital Lewisham (UHL) the community teams have been created to improve community-based care, as a safe alternative to hospital admission. The services provide; a rapid comprehensive assessment, supportive management plans and continued monitoring, without having to be admitted to hospital. The Community single point of access covers the Urgent Community Response (UCR) team, the Proactive Ageing Well team (PAWs) and Virtual ward.
Please note JD is pending RC approval., The post holder would be in addition to the twelve current Consultant Geriatricians, and be part of the wider multidisciplinary specialist Community team. This post has been designed to continue to support and maintain a Consultant led service in the Directorate of Medicine for Older Adults and to develop the well-established Community services.
The post-holder would participate in the Acute Frailty unit on a rotational basis, as well as be part of the overnight GIM rota (currently1:24). The post involves supervision and education of trainees within the hospital.

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, · To provide high quality health care for older patients referred for diagnosis and treatment, including outpatients and inpatients.
· To respond to inpatient and outpatient referrals from other specialties
· To provide prompt effective advice for General Practitioners
· To participate in educational and audit meetings
· To meet CPD and revalidation requirements
· To provide cover for consultant colleagues during periods of leave
· To support the Hospital's Clinical Governance Strategy
· To contribute to all other aspects of the Directorate and Hospital's affairs, including relevant Consultant and Directorate meetings
Medicine for Older Adults
· To provide a consultant-led service in the specialty
· To attend community multidisciplinary meetings.
· To support and assist in the development of the Urgent Community Response team, PAWs and Virtual Ward
· To contribute to the response of the Directorate to the National Service Framework for Older People
· To contribute to research in Medicine for the Elderly in an area of special interest
· To contribute to meeting the 18 week outpatient target
· To contribute to meeting the 4 hour waiting time target in the Emergency Department
· To contribute to other targets e.g., quality indicators for emergency department
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: Information provided during recruitment and pre-employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

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.