Locum Consultant Geriatrician and Physician

Job summary

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant Geriatrician & Physician based at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, to work with existing Consultant Geriatrician colleagues. This locum post is part-time, working 7 sessions per week, and is for a fixed-term period of six months whilst covering a vacancy and pending recruitment to a new post in the future.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is recognised as a teaching centre of excellence in a wide range of clinical services.

You will be able to take advantage of the excellent Consultant contract for Wales. The basic salary for this post is £84,884 per annum for a 7-session commitment.

Applicants should preferably either be on the Specialist Register or be a Specialist Registrar within three months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT at the time of interview.

Applicants must ensure they provide names and contact details of referees covering at least the last 3 years of their employment/training history in full. In addition, applicants who are currently or have most recently been employed as a substantive Consultant or as a Locum Consultant in post for more than 12 months must also provide the name of their Medical Director as an additional referee.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will support the Acute Geriatrics team and will undertake specialist geriatrics retrieval, review patients as required in the Emergency Department and Acute Medicine footprint, and undertake ward rounds on the Older Person's Acute Medical unit. They will work closely with the nurses and therapists in the Frailty Intervention Team and will carry the acute geriatrician phone. They will also undertake clinical reviews with the support of a resident doctor of Physician Associate.

The second part of the post offers a novel opportunity to further develop a POPs model within the Health Board, working with the Lead Geriatrician in the surgical department alongside specialist nurses and wider MDT members.

The post holder will participate in the acute general internal medical on-call rota on a 1:16 basis.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.