Consultant Geriatrician with Specialist Interest in Parkinsons Disease
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Location: | Bradford, BD9 6RJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9389-26-0031 |
Summary
The post holder will work with the existing team of consultants to deliver the Elderly Care service across the trust, with particular focus on interface geriatrics and developing community based services with a focus on admission and readmission avoidance. The post holder will undertake regular inpatient ward rounds, and in addition will provide medical support on the Elderly assessment unit, where their primary focus will be on admission avoidance and the provision of appropriate care in the community. Post holder will be expected to support Virtual Ward that has been established as an enabling multidisciplinary team (nursing, medical, therapy and social care) to support older people at home. The team provides a supported discharge to patients from acute wards via step down model of discharge to assess or an ambulatory care pathway. The virtual ward also supports admission avoidance by providing the same multidisciplinary team to patients stepped up from community or accident and emergency department. The post holder will be expected to undertake a weekly Parkinsons disease clinic and work closely with Neurology colleagues to develop a robust Parkinsons disease service for frail older people in Bradford. The post holder will be involved in the expansion of orthogeriatric services at the trust to include frail older people based on the orthopaedic ward with fractures other than hip fractures and involvement of geriatricians in the elective orthopaedic waiting list. The post holder will develop services aimed at avoiding readmissions to hospital, through active follow up of high risk patients on discharge from hospital to avoid repeated acute admissions where possible. In addition the post holder would be expected to take on significant responsibility in the supporting activities for the department within areas of clinical governance taking into account any areas of interest and consultant colleagues current commitments. This includes participation in the departments service development, clinical governance, MDT review, clinical trials, mortality and business meetings. Please see attached JD/PS for full details.