Job vacancy: Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Orthogeriatrics, Barts Health NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Geriatric Medicine
Grade: YM72
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 259-MED7419546WXH

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Whipps Cross Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/09/2025 23:59

Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Orthogeriatrics

YM72

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

These posts offers an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to develop new models of working and services that support all older people attending the hospital and within the local community. Whipps Cross Hospital serves a local population with a high degree of frailty and within the Barts Health Group is being developed to be a centre for Geriatric medicine.

As part of the development of Whipps Cross as a centre for frailty, Whipps Cross Hospital in 2021 became a centre of excellence for fragility fracture care, leading to an expansion in the workforce required to revolutionise the care for these patients and other orthopaedic patients with fragility fractures.

These post offers a unique opportunity to participate in the redevelopment of the Hospital itself as well as the services we provide as Whipps Cross looks forward to the building of a new Hospital and care pathways to provide truly gold standard care to our frail elderly patients.

You must hold full registration with the General Medical Council and be on the Specialist Registrar or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Must be on the GMC specialist register for Geriatric Medicine or within six months of CCT
CESR route acceptable.
Full GMC Registration with license to practice

Desirable criteria

Evidence of participation in research (peer reviewed publications etc.)
Appropriate higher degree (e.g., MD, PhD or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

Higher specialist training in Geriatrics and G(I)Medicine
Broad experience in Geriatrics and G(I)M
Current ALS certificate

Desirable criteria

Ability to organise and deliver a teaching programme.
Experience in Service Development

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Detailed knowledge of Geriatrics and G(I)M and of the specialist skills required for this post.
Knowledge of multidisciplinary clinical audit and demonstrable commitment to improving quality of care to patients
Understanding of modern medical curricula and commitment to life-long learning

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience of supervising medical staff
Ability to teach medical students and junior medical and nursing staff.
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs nurses and other agencies.

Others

Essential criteria

Flexible and co-operative approach to colleagues
Self-motivated with an enquiring, critical approach to work
Good leadership skills
Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure.
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional, or national level.
Prepared to live within 10 miles or 30 minutes of Whipps Cross Hospital

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

London Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage Foundation

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Dr Rowlandson Pratt
Job title: Consultant - Clinical Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Additional information: Informal discussions are encouraged, and you are invited to contact Dr Rowlandson Pratt, Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Lead on 0208 539 5522 via switch board. Email address: [email protected]

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Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Orthogeriatrics

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