Consultant Geriatrician

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.

Here at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital our specialty has grown substantially in recent years due to the 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 a Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) service. The specialty 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 an interest in front door geriatrics, peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatric and surgical liaison), and Falls. Further description of the specific services and areas for development are detailed below.

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

Main duties of the job

BHH Services

The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the early identification and comprehensive geriatric assessment of frail older adults arriving at the hospital front door. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to develop the acute frailty pathway at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, as well as exciting opportunities to be involved in collaborating with the wider BSOL integrated system to explore alternatives to acute hospital attendance for older adults living with frailty.

The opportunity to develop a community service with In-Reach to Intermediate Care centres anddeveloping a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community-based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.

Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service -- there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one of 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.

Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for frail older adults, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.

We have consultant led MDT Falls, MDT Parkinsons, Osteoporosis and General Geriatrics clinics.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Details

• Date posted: 03 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 15315
• Job locations: Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green E, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5SS, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

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

CLINICAL CARE

*Care of inpatients or older adults referred to the front door frailty teams

*Administrative duties related to patient care

*Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.

*Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.

*Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.

*Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues periods of leave in accordance with arrangements

agreed within Trust policy.

*To help the department and Trust in emergencies.

Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty

MANAGEMENT, SUPERVISORY, TEACHING, TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

*All consultants in the department are managerially accountable through the Clinical Service Leads to the CDG Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Directorate.

*Candidates are required to hold CCT or equivalent in Geriatric Medicine.

The successful candidates will provide necessary educational and clinical supervision for resident doctors and other health professionals working in their team. In addition, participation in the departmental and Trust wide teaching programmes for the relevant resident medical staff and members of the multidisciplinary teams is expected

*RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

*Consultants are key members of the Directorate Team and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient's experience.

*To support the Clinical Service Leads in policy and strategy development as a senior member of the Directorate Management Team.

*To contribute to the leadership and development of Services under the direction of the Clinical Service

*Leads and CDG Medical Director and in line with the Trusts business plans.