Job summary
- Main area
- Care of the elderly
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months from employment)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-26-RegCOE
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham General Hospital
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Trust Registrar in Care of the Elderly - ST3+
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
The COTE services are led by Dr Helen Alexander as the COTE Clinical Lead. COTE has 15 Consultants, many of whom have roles across a number of care of the Elderly and frailty services within the Trust.
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated team providing in and out-patient services. We are an ambitious department and in addition to our core, established sub-specialty departments are actively developing new services focused particularly on frailty and development of the frailty SDEC and virtual ward.
This advert may close early if there are sufficient applications
Main duties of the job
We anticipate that the applicant for this post will have MRCP and working at ST3+ with geriatric medicine experience within the NHS, and an evidenced commitment to a career in geriatric medicine. The objective of this post is to offer more focussed experience in frailty work and interface medicine on a Frailty Assessment Unit and Frailty Virtual Ward, with an opportunity to develop skills in a geriatric medicine subspecialty of particular interest to the candidate. This would be suitable for a candidate looking for Out of Programme Experience or to develop their portfolio in preparation to becoming a Specialist Doctor or CESR.
Educational supervision will be provided by a geriatrician.
We will encourage the completion of a quality improvement project and poster presentation or publication.
There is no on call commitment, but the successful candidate would join a 1in 7 weekend rota reviewing inpatients and working on the frailty unit.
Working for our organisation
Our Care of The Elderly Team consists of 13 geriatricians that work across Gloucester Royal Hospital, Cheltenham General Hospital, the seven Community Hospitals in Gloucestershire. We also have geriatricians who are working with community frailty services, movement disorders clinics, falls and syncope clinics. The Frailty Assessment Service is a multidisciplinary service assessing patients in ED and on the Frailty Assessment Unit, and also receives patients directly from the community. The Frailty Virtual Ward is a technology enabled service that supports patients to receive hospital level care at home and is part of a wider Virtual Hospital.
We are a forward thinking department and one of the first to develop a geriatrician lead orthogeriatrics ward, we also have a peri-operative medicine service and keen to move forward with progressing our frailty service
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The COTE services are led by Dr Helen Alexander as the COTE Clinical Lead. COTE has 15 Consultants, many of whom have roles across a number of care of the Elderly and frailty services within the Trust.
The successful applicant would be part of a dedicated team providing in and out-patient services. We are an ambitious department and in addition to our core, established sub-specialty departments are actively developing new services such as Peri-Operative Medicine, Oncology and heart failure liaison.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- MRCP
- ST 3+ level Geriatric Medicine Trainee
Desirable criteria
- Experience / interest in frailty
Experience
Essential criteria
- Geriatric Medicine
- NHS experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Alexander
- Job title
- Clinical lead for Care of the elderly
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03004222082
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