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.
* Lead inpatient care on one of our acute geriatric wards, typically caring for 15 patients.
* Participate in community-based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and urgent assessment clinics at the Ageing Well Centre.
* Support innovative admission avoidance initiatives such as our Consultant-led Frailty Virtual Ward and the new Frailty Line.
* Contribute to service development across the span of Geriatrics services in a sub-specialty area of interest.
* Provide supervision and teaching for junior doctors, IMTs, GP trainees, fellows, and registrars.
* Play an active role in clinical governance, audit, and continuous service improvement.
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year 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 transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
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 work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Fiona Bath Job title: General Manager Email address: Telephone number:
ext 6943