Locum Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician

Job summary

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician. The appointment will be 10Pas. This post will be based at the West Middlesex University Hospital site.

The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services in busy, but well supported hospitals.

Main duties of the job

Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust would like to invite applications for a substantive Consultant Stroke Physician.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic colleague to join our team for this exciting new joint posts to cover Stroke Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at West Middlesex Site.

We welcome informal enquiries and visits. In the first instance please contact Service Director for Stroke via email on Dr Ravneeta Singh on ravneeta.singh@nhs.net

Applications should be made at the NHS Jobs website with the respective job reference shown below. Please attach a copy of your CV which should include your CCT date and names, addresses, emails, and fax numbers of three referees.

About us

We have nearly 6,000 members of staff that care for nearly one million people locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We are one of the best performing FTs in London for A&E waiting times, and mortality rates are better than average. Since the Care Quality Commission last inspected our hospitals we have taken on responsibility for a range of new services. Our new services include:

• Cardiac catheter service and a paediatric assessment unit on the West Middlesex site
• Surgical assessment unit on the Chelsea site
• New sexual health clinic at 10 Hammersmith Broadway
• Virtual fracture clinics
• Learning disabilities passports

Plans are in place for a £20 million expansion to critical care facilities and refurbishment of the children's unit at West Middlesex, both in partnership with the Trust's dedicated charity CW+.