A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our welcoming and highly supportive Geriatric Medicine team at Wye Valley NHS Trust, set in the heart of beautiful Herefordshire. Surrounded by the Wye Valley, rolling countryside and historic market towns, with excellent transport links, this role offers both professional fulfilment and an excellent work-life balance.
The Frailty Service is built on strong multidisciplinary working, with daily consultant-led MDT discussions and close collaboration with ACPs, Hospital at Home teams, therapists and community services. This creates a supportive environment where shared decision-making and teamwork are central to practice.
This role offers the chance to make a real difference to frail older patients by delivering patient-centred care closer to home. You will support early discharge, prevent unnecessary admissions and provide high-quality step-down care, helping patients maintain independence and dignity in familiar surroundings.
With flexibility, autonomy and excellent consultant support, alongside opportunities for teaching, development and service improvement, this is an exciting role for someone passionate about frailty and community-based care.
We welcome applicants who can bring innovative ways of working to the Trust.
This post may close early if we receive a high volume of interest.
The Speciality Doctor in Community Geriatric Medicine plays a key role in supporting frail patients following discharge from hospital, enabling earlier discharge and providing ongoing, high-quality care in the community.
The post holder will independently review patients, work closely with a multidisciplinary team (MDT), and contribute to service development to improve patient flow, continuity of care, and hospital-community integration.
Please see further duties and responsibilities attached on the job description.
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Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
The Frailty Service is based in a purpose built three-ward block comprising three inpatient wards. The Consultant Geriatricians also have responsibility for inpatients in Leominster Community Hospital and Ledbury discharge to assess beds, undertake ward referrals from other specialties, support the Front Door Frailty team based in the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) Unit, Virtual Ward and provide a general and movement disorders out patient service.
Please see attached job description and personal specification for further details.
