Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine for the Elderly
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (option of 6month or 1 year)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPA-094
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £41,750 - £64,288 pa + London Weighting
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Trust Grade Doctor in Elderly Medicine
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The role is of an IMT3 or ST4+ level trainee in general & geriatric medicine. The post-holder will join the current team of junior doctors in the Elderly Medicine Department. They will be based on the medicine for the elderly wards, rehabilitation wards and in the Older Person Rapid Access Clinic (OPRAC). There will also be opportunities to attend falls clinic.
Main duties of the job
This Medicine for the Elderly position involves leading multidisciplinary care on inpatient wards (8 South & 8 West) and the rehabilitation unit (5 West), including ward rounds, board rounds, MDT meetings, new patient reviews, and family discussions. It also includes outpatient work in a rapid-access OPRAC clinic—performing Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments, coordinating diagnostics and treatments—and a weekly falls clinic in collaboration with physiotherapy, all under consultant supervision. Departmental duties entail regular radiology meetings, Grand Rounds, educational sessions, Friday medical meetings, teaching juniors and students, and participating in audit and governance. The post carries acute medical registrar rota duties for admissions and ward cover including nights. For those pursuing geriatrics, opportunities exist to gain experience in subspecialty areas such as movement disorders and to engage in teaching, research, and career development initiatives.
Working for our organisation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust was created on October 1, 2007 by merging St. Mary’s NHS Trust and Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and integrating with the faculty of medicine of Imperial College London. One of the largest NHS trust in the country, we have come together to establish the UK’s first academic health science centre (AHSC). The Trust has an annual turnover of over £950 million, approximately 10,000 staff, and it see over 500,000 patients a year.
The creation of the AHSC, a partnership between the NHS and Imperial College London, is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation. The fusion of the different strands of our
work and the achievements that can now be realised will lead to significant benefits for patients and greater advances in healthcare than could be delivered apart.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust already has a world-leading reputation. Hammersmith and St Mary’s hospitals have two of the highest clinical ratings in the country, rated second and third best Trusts for clinical performance, quality of care and safety.
Imperial College London has a campus on all main sites and is increasingly integrated with all the clinical specialties. The Clinical Sciences Centre of the Medical Research Council (MRC) is also based at Hammersmith Hospital providing a strong foundation for clinical and scientific research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached job description for full details on duties, key responsibilities, and role expectations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- On GMC Register with license to practice
- MBBS or equivalent
Academic achievements including research/publications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of achievement appropriate to level of appointment at ICHNT
Relevant experience
Essential criteria
- Must have at least completed Foundation training, IMT 1& 2 or equivalent
- Experience in Elderly Medicine essential Advanced life support
Language
Essential criteria
- Are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent in performing and teaching basic clinical procedures
- Ability to manage safely, and appropriately elderly patients
- Ability to manage acutely unwell patients and escalate care where needed
- Aware of own limitations, consults senior colleagues appropriately
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adrian Parke
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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