Locum Consultant Physician - Medicine for the Elderly

OUR VALUES IN ACTION

• Care and Compassion
• Quality and Teamwork
• Dignity and Respect
• Openness, Honesty and Responsibility
  
  

Basic Salary: £107,144 - £142,369 per annum + on-call supplement (3% of full time salary)

Why work for us?

Patients are at the centre of everything we do in our daily working lives at NHS Borders ensuring they are safe, cared for efficiently, effectively by suitably experienced and qualified staff driving quality at the heart of patient care. We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS.

Borders General Hospital is a modern and well-equipped 284 bed DGH serving the rural Borders area in South East Scotland, approximately 36 miles from Edinburgh.

The Role

We are seeking a consultant physician / geriatrician to join our team of consultant physicians.

The Department of Medicine for the Elderly (DME), within the Borders General Hospital, has a team of Consultants covering both general and specialist areas in care of the elderly medicine. The successful applicant will be responsible, along with their colleagues, for the general care of patients in the Department of Medicine for the Elderly and, through close liaison with GPs and the primary health care team, the integrated management of elderly patients. They will also be expected to act as leads in the development and support of identified specialist services, according to their particular interests and the needs of the service. They will be expected to assist the moves towards integrated care for the Scottish Borders.

All candidates must possess full GMC Registration and will already be on the Specialist Register for both Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine, or within six months of receiving their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent at the time of the interview.

Informal enquiries and visits are welcome contact Dr Rachel Stewart Clinical Director, [email protected]

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. 

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

• PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early**
  
  

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.