Consultant Geriatrician
(with opportunities for sub-specialty interests)
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
What if Geriatric Medicine could be more?
More integrated, preventative, focused on independence, dignity, and living well.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) 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, Research 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 department is looking at ways to improve care for Frail and Older patients (and reduce the phenomenon of Corridor Care) and so the post goes beyond traditional ward based care and provides real scope to develop services, pathways, partnerships, education, and population-level outcomes for frail older adults.
Please see attached JDs and additional information about the role.
- 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 clinics
- 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
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.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film .
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.
Why join BHRUT
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
