Consultant Geriatrician
Closing date: 18 January 2026
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 of the job
A central component of the role will be medical advice and guidance to the in‑patient 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 multi‑disciplinary ward team to handle complexity, manage frailty expertly and help to widen our step‑up capability for low‑cal patients. The post holders will work closely with acute Trust colleagues to support appropriate treatment, escalation and step‑down rehabilitation pathways. Alongside the in‑patient 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 adding 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. Job shares between applicants and shared roles with PHUT would also be considered.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high‑quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone – if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
* MBBS or equivalent
* MRCP or equivalent
* Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with licence to practice
* CCT or equivalent (or within 6 months of award by date of interview) in GIM
* ELIGIBILITY:
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
* CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
* Excellent knowledge in specialty
* Excellent clinical skills in frailty, rehabilitation and community work, applying wide medical knowledge
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
* Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
* Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
* ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING:
* Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
* Participated in continuous professional development.
* Participated in research or service evaluation.
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
* Ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.
* TRANSPORT:
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
St. Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
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