Trust Grade Doctor (SHO level) in Elderly Medicine | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

We are seeking an enthusiastic and capable doctor to join our Acute Medicine team at St Mary’s Hospital (SMH), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, at SHO level as Trust Grade Doctor. The post holder will be attached to Medicine for the Elderly for 6 months, primarily based on Thistle Ward, with on-call duties in acute and general medicine.

We reserve ourselves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient amount of applications for the role.

The posts are approved for specialty training in General Practice. Ward-based clinical commitments of the post are based exclusively at St Mary’s Hospital.

The General responsibilities of all three post-holders are to:

1. Daily to review all patients admitted in their ward areas and to supervise the FY1 and FY2’s.
2. Provide medical cross-cover to the all patients in the elderly care department where necessary
3. To attend multidisciplinary meetings and lead these meetings in the absence of the consultant or registrar
4. To take part in the General (Internal) Medical on call rota
5. To teach junior medical/paramedical staff and Year 3 and Year 5 medical students of Imperial College School of Medicine.
6. SHOs may be asked to work outside their work plan from time to time to ensure the above general duties are covered.
7. To participate in the educational activities of the department and the GP STS as outlined in the educational section above.

You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefitsinclude career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Work Plan1: Thistle SHO working on GIM on-call Rota (3rd on ST)

A comprehensive geriatric assessment/clerking for new patients is performed on arrival to the ward and then presented to the registrar/consultant. The ST does other ward work as needed and completes a Health Needs Assessment.

The nominal ward schedule is as follows (each ward will vary slightly):

• Monday. Consultant ward round followed by CMT teaching in the College Lecture Theater 13:00. 2pm MDT meeting which at least one junior doctor should attend with the Consultant to take notes/present patients at the team meeting.
• Tuesday. Registrar led ward round/but also split into smaller groups if well staffed so that STs/juniors have experience in leading the ward round. Departmental teaching from 1300-1400
• Wednesday. Morning ward round with registrar. Falls clinic in the afternoon (optional)
• Thursday. Registrar/junior led ward round. 13.15-XRay meeting on Teams.
• Friday.Consultant Ward Round with Grand round at lunchtime.

The SHO will be required to attend the post take ward round the next day and may be required for post-take duties all day. Second on-call attends patients in A&E in the afternoon/evening however they can be called sooner if required.

This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025