Consultant in Elderly Medicine | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Posting date:	30 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	30 July 2025
Location:	Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Company:	East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7315541/361-R2R-2414-A

Summary

This is a substantive appointment, based predominantly at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The posts comprise of 10 programmed activities (PAs) including an on-call commitment of 1.25PA, but part time and
job share applicants are welcome to apply. The Job Plan also includes 2 Supporting Programmed Activities per week.

The department is looking to innovate further with development of its outpatient offering to adapt to the changing needs of the population. This is evidenced by the increasing integration with community clinics and services, enabling greater choice and flexibility for our patients.
This is a career enhancing opportunity to work in a large district general hospital covering the full range of acute services including an active renal unit, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, cardiology, oncology, rheumatology, urology, plastic surgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, paediatrics, and elderly care medicine.

• Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the
service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and
directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical education

The successful candidate will be responsible for 15 inpatient beds on
a general elderly care ward (9A) as well as general geriatrics/subspecialty outpatient clinics. The role comes with an oncall commitment for the unselected general medical take currently compensated as 1.25PA subject to future consultations.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.


This advert closes on Monday 21 Jul 2025