Consultant Geriatrician

As the senior clinical lead for H@H, you will drive service development, provide expert frailty leadership, support complex clinical decision making, and help create new pathways that reduce hospital admissions and promote home first care. Working with a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will champion innovative models of care that improve outcomes and patient experience. This role offers the chance to shape strategy, strengthen partnerships across acute, community and primary care services, and lead clinical governance, quality improvement and service transformation across the BSW system. If you're passionate about frailty care, innovation and leading meaningful change, this is an exciting opportunity to help redefine how acute healthcare is delivered and make a lasting impact on the lives of older people., As the Consultant Geriatrician for our Hospital at Home Team, you will provide senior clinical leadership and specialist frailty expertise to support the delivery and development of innovative hospital-level care in patient's own homes across BSW. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, operational leaders and system partners, you will help shape clinical pathways, support complex decision-making, champion best practice in frailty care, and drive service improvement. You will play a key role in strengthening partnerships across acute, community, primary care and urgent care services, ensuring integrated, patient centered care that supports admission avoidance and home first approaches. The role also includes leading clinical governance, quality improvement, workforce development and strategic service transformation to ensure Hospital at Home continues to deliver safe, effective and sustainable care for older people.

Essential

• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• Entry on the GMC
• One of CCT, CESR, European community rights in Geriatric Medicine
• Extensive medical experience at registrar or consultant level
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
• Experience of working with managers to improve patient experience and service delivery
• Experience in clinical audit
• Understanding of clinical research
• Proven ability to motivate, support and work within a multi-disciplinary team
• High professional and ethical standards
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A commitment to continuous professional development
• Good IT skills
• Ability to balance competing pressures and proven ability to organise and priorities workload, delegating as appropriate
Desirable
• Relevant higher degree (MD/PhD)
• Qualification in Teaching & Learning
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Special interest or advanced experience in community geriatrics
• Involvement in service development and enacting change
• Ability to lead clinical services
• Involvement in research
• Experience in teaching practically a multi-professional team
• Advanced leadership skills
Other requirements:
• Full UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Willingness to work across different Trust areas as required.
• Flexible availability to meet service demands.
• The role includes participation in an on-call rota to provide senior operational leadership and decision-making support outside of normal working hours, as required'
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

With a competitive salary of £131, 581.00 - £136,645.00 (Medical and Dental Payscale) and access to the NHS Pension, this position is designed to reward your dedication and skills. You'll benefit from exclusive perks such as:
• Financial Savings: Discounts on everyday purchases, cashback, and vouchers for special moments through My Reward Hub.
• Flexible Pay Access: Get your wages as you earn them, avoiding financial stress during life's emergencies.
• Wellbeing Support: Comprehensive online and face-to-face resources for mental and physical health, career coaching, counselling, and post-trauma assistance.
• Continuous Development: Access bespoke career pathways, eLearning, and ongoing CPD opportunities through our 'Outstanding' learning team, The Learning Enterprise.
• Innovative Environment: Work within an open culture that values your ideas, supported by £100,000 annually in innovation funding to help you shape the future of health and care.
• Commitment to Excellence: Join a team with a proven track record of high-quality care, with most services rated as "Good" or "Outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission.