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Job summary

Main area
Geriatric/ Elderly Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (Part time hours considered (Oncall rota))
Job ref
423-7206531
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale General Hospital
Town
Steeton
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Geriatrician

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Be part of our future landscape

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.  

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale.  We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030.  By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

 

Job overview

The successful candidate will join the existing team in delivering geriatric medicine inpatient and outpatient work in the Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and East Lancashire area.

The elderly team offer acute frailty support, comprehensive geriatric assessment, and FEP.  The service also includes in-reach into rehabilitation beds based in one of our district general hospitals.

With access to radiology, pathology, diagnostic testing, the team provide a truly comprehensive service to our inpatients and outpatients.

Main duties of the job

The team look after 3 elderly care wards and provide liaison service to orthopaedics and the acute admission ward. The service also includes in-reach into 10 rehabilitation beds based in one of our district general hospitals, dedicated MDT outpatient clinics and community sessions.

With access to radiology, pathology, diagnostic testing, the team provide a truly comprehensive service to our inpatients and outpatients.

Ward based support, offering in-reach into Urgent Care and being part of the on-call rota.

Working for our organisation

Airedale is ambitious about its future and has already established an excellent reputation for innovative developments for example providing telemedicine to a number of prisons and nursing homes. We fully recognise the range and diversity of the increasing demands, expectations and challenges over the next few years, that requires a significant shift in emphasis away from episodic care to population based health, with partners coming together to meet our local population’s health and social care needs.

 The last year has been like no other, particularly within the NHS, we are extremely proud of the response of our people and our communities to the pandemic. Like all NHS organisations, we face a challenging future and we need to be nimble and proactive in responding to the NHS Long Term Plan and the significant changes facing the NHS in line with the white paper. At all times we will maintain our focus and uncompromising approach to high quality and safe services for the population of Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will join the existing team in providing a comprehensive level of service to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and its users.

The post will be based at Airedale General Hospital.

To support delivery of geriatric medicine inpatient and outpatient work in the Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and East Lancashire area.

 

Please see attached job description for full details. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • licence to Practise with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
  • MRCP, FRCP or equivalent
  • Excellent clinical skills Knows limits of own competence Is safe, knowledgeable and evidence of continuous learning
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree (PhD; MD) or Mphil

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Geriatric and General Internal Medicine
  • Relevant experience in organisation and undertaking clinical audit/appraisal
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in or knowledge of the use of telehealth technology and anticipates changes in the political climate

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undertaking audits and presenting their findings
  • Ability to critically review research
Desirable criteria
  • An acknowledged expert for research in a particular aspect of healthcare education/clinical practice
  • Experience within a research team
  • Post-MD/PhD research experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability Confident - two yearsNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nas Yaseen
Job title
Patient Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535 295302
Additional information

Pauline Bailey

Consultant Geriatrician

[email protected]

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