Consultant Geriatrician | Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Romford, RM7 0AG |
| Company: | Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7481935/162-M7513 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Consultant Geriatrician to join our growing team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT). This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of care for older adults across North East London, working within our newly openedAgeing Well Centreat St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub, alongside our Acute Geriatrics Wards at Queen’s and King George Hospitals.
This role will appeal to consultants who are passionate aboutintegrated care, community links, and improving independence for frail older people, while also contributing to the continued transformation of our services.
• Lead inpatient care on one of our acute geriatric wards, typically caring for 15 patients.
• Participate in community-based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and urgent assessment clinics at the Ageing Well Centre.
• Support innovative admission avoidance initiatives such as our Consultant-ledFrailty Virtual Wardand the newFrailty Line.
• Contribute to service development across the span of Geriatrics services in a sub-specialty area of interest.
• Provide supervision and teaching for junior doctors, IMTs, GP trainees, fellows, and registrars.
• Play an active role in clinical governance, audit, and continuous service improvement.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determinationto deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer inspecial measures; we’ve openedtwo new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH);and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve beenshortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
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.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; anAgeing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospital and atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 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 canwork flexibly andmore than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
We’re seeking a consultant who:
• Holds (or is within 6 months of) a CCT in Geriatric Medicine (GIM considered).
• Is committed to compassionate, patient-centred care.
• Enjoys working within a multi-disciplinary team and across system boundaries.
• Has an interest in service improvement and leadership in frailty services.
What we offer
• Opportunities to develop subspecialist interests in clinical areas such as dementia, falls, orthogeriatrics, and perioperative medicine as well as non clinical areas such as education.
• Teaching opportunities with undergraduate and postgraduate doctors.
• Support for research, QI, and leadership development.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work–life balance.
If you want to be part of a Trust that is transforming care for older people — and shaping a more proactive, integrated approach to frailty — we’d love to hear from you.
For further information please contact
· Dr Simon Green simon.green5@nhs.net, Consultant Geriatrician, AMD Integrated Care for Frailty and Clinical Group Director
• Dr Khalid Haque khalid.haque@nhs.net, Consultant Geriatrician and Lead King George Site.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025
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