Consultant Geriatrician

Overview

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is expanding its forward-looking Geriatrics services and is seeking enthusiastic Consultant Geriatricians to join the team. These posts offer flexibility and breadth. Applications are welcomed from general Geriatricians and from consultants with sub-specialty interests, including Dementia, Delirium, Orthogeriatrics, Medical Education, and Movement Disorders. You will work across acute and community settings, supporting service transformation for older people across North East London. The role spans Acute Geriatrics services at Queen's and King George Hospitals and the Ageing Well Centre at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. The post goes beyond traditional ward based care and provides real scope to influence pathways, partnerships, education, and population-level outcomes for frail older adults.

The closing date is 03 March 2026 (with opportunities for sub-specialty interests).

Please see attached JDs and additional information about the role.

Main duties of the job

• Lead inpatient care on an acute geriatric ward, typically caring for around 15 patients
• Deliver Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment through community and urgent assessment clinics at the Ageing Well Centre
• Support and develop admission avoidance initiatives, including the Consultant-led Frailty Virtual Ward and Frailty Line
• Contribute to service development across Geriatrics, aligned to a sub-specialty area of interest

Depending on experience and interest, duties may also include:

• Development of Dementia, Delirium, or Orthogeriatric pathways
• Participation in Movement Disorders clinics and advanced therapy MDTs, including DBS and botulinum toxin clinic
• Leadership in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education

All post holders will:

• Supervise and teach junior doctors, IMTs, GP trainees, fellows, and registrars
• Participate actively in clinical governance, audit, teaching, and quality improvement

Academic and research opportunities

BHRUT works in collaboration with the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) as it develops a growing research portfolio within Geriatrics across East London.

There are opportunities to:

• Collaborate on research focused on healthy ageing, frailty, and long-term conditions
• Contribute to the development of academic Geriatrics within the Trust
• Support innovation, evaluation, and evidence-based service redesign

About us

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.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

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.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a 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.

The majority of our 8,400 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.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for consultants who:

• Hold, or are within six months of, a CCT in Geriatric Medicine, GIM considered
• Are passionate about integrated, person-centred care
• Value multidisciplinary working and strong community and system partnerships
• Want opportunities to innovate, teach, influence, and lead service change

For sub-specialty roles, you should demonstrate interest or experience aligned to their chosen area.

You will deliver care and help redesign it.

Whether your passion is Frailty, Dementia, Delirium, Orthogeriatric, Education, Movement Disorders, or Research, this is an opportunity to shape the future of Geriatric Medicine in East London.

We welcome your application.

Please indicate sub-specialty of interest in your application.

Please note that this advert may close prior to the advertised closing date, to streamline shortlisting process

Person Specification Qualifications and experience

• 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
• Higher specialist training in Geriatrics and G(I)Medicine
• Experience in Acute Frailty Services
• Broad experience in Geriatrics and G(I)M
• Ability to organize and deliver a teaching programme
• Appropriate higher degree (e.g. MD, PhD or equivalent)
• Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.)
• Current ALS certificate

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust