Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic Consultant Geriatrician to join our growing team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT). This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of care for older adults across North East London, working within our newly opened Ageing Well Centre at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub, alongside our Acute Geriatrics Wards at Queen’s and King George Hospitals.
This role will appeal to consultants who are passionate about integrated care, community links, and improving independence for frail older people, while also contributing to the continued transformation of our services.
Main duties of the job
1. Lead inpatient care on one of our acute geriatric wards, typically caring for 15 patients.
2. Participate in community-based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and urgent assessment clinics at the Ageing Well Centre.
3. Support innovative admission avoidance initiatives such as our Consultant-led Frailty Virtual Ward and the new Frailty Line.
4. Contribute to service development across the span of Geriatrics services in a sub-specialty area of interest.
5. Provide supervision and teaching for junior doctors, IMTs, GP trainees, fellows, and registrars.
6. Play an active role in clinical governance, audit, and continuous service improvement.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We’re seeking a consultant who:
7. Holds (or is within 6 months of) a CCT in Geriatric Medicine (GIM considered).
8. Is committed to compassionate, patient-centred care.
9. Enjoys working within a multi-disciplinary team and across system boundaries.
10. Has an interest in service improvement and leadership in frailty services.
What we offer
11. Opportunities to develop subspecialist interests in clinical areas such as dementia, falls, orthogeriatrics, and perioperative medicine as well as non clinical areas such as education.
12. Teaching opportunities with undergraduate and postgraduate doctors.
13. Support for research, QI, and leadership development.
14. Flexible working arrangements to support work–life balance.
If you want to be part of a Trust that is transforming care for older people — and shaping a more proactive, integrated approach to frailty — we’d love to hear from you.
15. Dr Khalid Haque, Consultant Geriatrician and Lead King George Site.
Person specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential criteria
16. MRCP or Equivalent Specialist qualification
17. Entry on the GMC Specialist Register (or eligibility for entry within 6 months of date of Advisory Appointments Committee) for either Geriatric Medicine or G(I)Medicine by CCT
18. Higher specialist training in Geriatrics and G(I)Medicine
19. Experience in Acute Frailty Services
20. Broad experience in Geriatrics and G(I)M
Desirable criteria
21. Ability to organize and deliver a teaching programme
22. Appropriate higher degree (e.g. MD, PhD or equivalent)
23. Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.)
24. Experience in service development
25. Current ALS certificate
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.
Application numbers
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