Job summary
Join us as a Consultant Geriatrician and play a central role in transforming community care across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. As part of our newly formed Trust, you will help shape services that meet the needs of our ageing population and move care closer to home. You will be based in one of our hubs in Gosport, Portsmouth or Petersfield, working across inpatient wards, the Community Assessment Unit, virtual wards and neighbourhood MDTs. Your expertise will support complex inpatient care while also guiding community teams through MDT meetings, CAU assessments and virtual ward reviews. This is a hands‑on, varied role where your clinical leadership will strengthen rehabilitation, escalation and step‑down pathways in partnership with acute colleagues. We offer flexibility to tailor the role around your interests, with opportunities in research, education, service development and leadership. You'll receive Trust‑wide mentorship, a comprehensive induction and CPD support as well as additional SPA time to support innovation, training or the growth of our community frailty model. The role is offered with no current on‑call and with future remote options under review; we also welcome applications for job shares and joint posts with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. If you are passionate about high‑quality, integrated geriatric care and want a role where your leadership can make real impact, shape pathways and lead meaningful service change, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties
A central component of the role will be medical advice and guidance to the inpatient wards, providing senior and experienced clinical oversight to complex and challenging patients across our community hospital wards, the frailty virtual ward, Urgent Care Response and the Community Assessment Unit. The consultant geriatrician is key to enabling the multidisciplinary ward team to handle complexity, manage frailty expertly and help to widen our step‑up capability for low‑acuity patients. The post holder will work closely with acute Trust colleagues to support appropriate treatment escalation and step‑down rehabilitation pathways. Alongside the inpatient work, the post holder will help lead the community‑facing aspects of this job. Provision of expert clinical opinion and leadership for community colleagues seeking support with their patients is firstly provided by local ICT‑led community MDT meetings, CAU appointments, daily VW caseload review meetings and the option of home visits from consultant nurses or this postholder all add depth to the Community Elderly/Frailty offering. HIOWFT is committed to delivering care closer to home for our ageing population. We are looking for new colleagues who are interested in helping to grow and develop our services to meet this challenge.
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