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An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Geriatrician to join an expanding and forward-thinking Frailty Service delivering integrated, patient-centred care across acute and community settings in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

This is a substantive consultant post focused on the development and delivery of reactive and proactive frailty services, including urgent community response, virtual wards, emergency department front-door services, and specialist frailty units. The role offers significant scope for service development, leadership, teaching, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The post holder will work as a Consultant Geriatrician within the Frailty Team, contributing across the following clinical areas:

Community Reactive Services (Urgent Community Response & Virtual Wards)

• Provide senior clinical leadership and advice to the multidisciplinary team.
• Hold clinical responsibility for a variable caseload (typically 10–12 UCR patients and 50–70 virtual ward patients).
• Participate in team huddles and case reviews.
• Undertake home visits for complex patients as required.
• Liaise closely with acute hospital teams, community services, and primary care.

Emergency Department Front Door

• Provide consultant-level clinical leadership within the frailty front-door service.
• Review new frailty presentations (approximately 4 per day).
• Support early discharge planning and in-reach to medical wards to identify patients suitable for community or virtual ward management.

Specialist Frailty Unit

• Provide clinical and professional leadership for junior doctors and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Support high-quality inpatient frailty care with a focus on functional recovery, independence, and safe discharge planning.

Professional Responsibilities

• Deliver a comprehensive, high-quality clinical service in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine.
• Comply at all times with GMC Good Medical Practice.
• Maintain patient confidentiality and professional standards.
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement activities.
• Supervise, teach, and support junior doctors, medical students, nurses, and allied health professionals.
• Use NHS resources responsibly and contribute to service efficiency and development.

Essential Qualifications & Training

• Primary medical qualification.
• MRCP or equivalent higher medical qualification.
• Complete GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine, or within six months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview (via CCT, CESR, or EU Community Rights).
• Minimum 1 year of NHS experience, with relevant experience in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine.

Clinical Experience

Essential

• High standard of clinical expertise in Geriatric Medicine.
• Comprehensive experience managing complex geriatric and general medical patients.
• Experience working within community geriatrics and integrated care services.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in acute medicine, including leadership of unselected medical takes.

Desirable

• Experience in service development.
• Awareness of national policies and quality initiatives relevant to older people’s care.

Research, Audit & Governance

Essential

• Participation in clinical audit and governance activities.

• Ability to apply research findings to clinical practice.
• Ability to critically appraise medical literature and contribute to change management.

Desirable

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Management & Leadership Experience

Essential

• Experience supervising postgraduate trainees.
• Evidence of management training (or commitment to undertake such training).
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Active participation in clinical governance frameworks.

Desirable

• Experience in service organisation and development.

Teaching & Education

Essential

• Experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate trainees.
• Ability to teach clinical skills effectively.

Desirable

• Experience supervising junior doctors.
• Experience teaching wider staff groups or lay audiences.
• Educational supervision accreditation.
• Experience supervising postgraduate research.

Personal Attributes

• Strong team-working and collaborative skills.
• Patient-centred approach with an understanding of user involvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• An analytical, enquiring, and reflective approach to practice.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Willingness to take on additional professional responsibilities locally, regionally, or nationally.
• Ability to travel between working sites as required.

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