Consultant Geriatrician

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job description

Job summary

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.

At Birmingham Heartlands Hospital our speciality has grown substantially in recent years due to development of one of the largest fractured neck of femur service in Europe, a comprehensive Older Person Assessment and Liaison (OPAL) service providing vital front door care and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care -FSDEC service. The speciality wishes to recruit additional and dynamic Consultant Geriatricians at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to support our exciting and forward-thinking team. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatric and surgical liaison), movement disorders and acute geriatrics.

Heartlands Hospital are committed to supporting staff wellbeing, so although the posts are 10 programmed activities, working less than full time can be accommodated.

Job plan: PAs for direct patient care and SPAs to support revalidation activities including CPD and educational supervision/teaching. Must possess MRCP or equivalent, be on the Specialist Register in Geriatric and General Medicine or within 6 months of CCT in Geriatric and General Medicine. Applicants must be entered onto the GMC register.

Main duties of the job

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH)

Services unique to BHH site include:

1. The opportunity to join a well established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides CGA in ED and the medical assessment unit.
2. The opportunity to develop a community service within reach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
3. Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service, there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.
4. Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for patients over 70, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.
5. We have consultant led MDT Fall, MDT Parkinson's, Osteoporosis and general geriatrics clinics.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted: 19 March 2025

Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade: Consultant

Salary: £105,504 to £139,882 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 11888

Job locations: Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green E, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5SS

Job description Job responsibilities

CLINICAL CARE

1. Care of inpatients
2. Administrative duties related to patient care
3. Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.
4. Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.
5. Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.
6. Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy.
7. To help the department and Trust in emergencies.
8. Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty.

Contact Dr Claire Roberston (CDG Director) [e-mail]

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• MRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green E, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5SS

Employer's website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm