Geriatric clinical fellow; ST+ Vascular Surgery

Overview

Main area Geriatric medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow. Contract Fixed term: 12 months (48 per week). Hours Full time - 48 hours per week. Job  /RG. Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Site St Georges University Hospital, London. Salary £65,048 pro rata per annum. Closing 16/02/2026 23:59.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services. With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m. Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff. St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme.

The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital. We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds. As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities.

These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

1 year fixed term post offered pending 3 month probationary period. The postholder will work for the vascular geriatrics consultant delivering comprehensive geriatric assessment to older patients undergoing vascular surgery. The postholder will undertake pre-operative assessments on the ward and in clinic, be involved in shared decision making and optimising patients for surgery and post-operative management on the ward. The fellow will participate in board rounds, ward rounds – jointly with vascular and independently - and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

There may be an option of contributing to the on call rota covering acute medicine and ward cover on calls. The postholder will also be part of the senior health referral rota, reviewing patients under other specialties. These are often surgical patients and will provide exposure to other surgical specialties.

• To demonstrate excellent communication skills, working collaboratively and constructively with the vascular team
• Working closely with the vascular team to provide medical input, frailty assessments and comprehensive geriatric assessments primarily for patients over 65 years but also will need to be comfortable providing care to younger patients
• To provide senior medical support, teaching and mentoring to the vascular team
• To attend board rounds to ensure consistent geriatric presence and adequate handover
• To attend vascular POPS clinic and contribute to vascular MDT meetings
• To deliver teaching both informally in board rounds and on ward rounds and formally in vascular meetings
• To work closely with our multi-disciplinary team to facilitate discharge planning and support them in providing care to complex older patients
• To work closely with the geriatric consultant to embed the peri-operative service and to help…