Job overview
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust are seeking to appoint an Elderly Care Consultant in Geriatric Medicine to support the acute elderly services. The posts will be working for 10 Programmed Activities (PA) per week with an additional PA available (subject to negotiation). The postholders will join a team of Elderly Care consultants to provide high quality patient care and support surgical patients who are undergoing emergency laparotomy. The postholder will have the opportunity to lead the development of POP services and improve the quality of care for patients presenting with emergency laparotomy surgery.
The postholder will participate in a 1 in 18 on-call consultant rota for General Medicine during weekdays and weekends (1 PA per week will be remunerated). The weekend commitment includes morning and evening ward rounds in conjunction with an AMU Consultant covering all patients admitted to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU). There will be a requirement for 1 in 4 Saturday ward cover from 09:00 – 13:00. there is a requirement to review surgical patients on demand (0.75 PA) for this 1 in 4 Saturdays. In addition, there is a negotiable option of 1 in 6 weekend ward cover on Ward 29 09:00 – 15:00. (short stay ward) to cover do ward round on Saturday and Sunday.
If you wish to arrange an informal visit, please contact Hannah Beattie on [email protected]
Interviews will take place on 28th July 2026.
Main duties of the job
The main duties are of the role will include the following:
- To have a responsibility to provide a high-quality clinical care to patients in Elderly Care and General Internal Medicine services and to continuously update practice based on evidence-based medicine and audit.
- To provide advice to colleagues in other specialities on elderly patients with problems (surgery).
- To support teaching and training of nurses, junior medical staff, medical students and to contribute to postgraduate medical education in general.
- To undertake educational/clinical supervisor duties for junior doctors
- To support and encourage audit and research
- To actively participate in CPD and personal development plans.
- To lead on the POP service
The post holder will be supported by an appropriately skilled medical secretariat.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A job plan and work schedule will set out agreed arrangements for how work is organised, where it is located, what in general terms the work comprises and when it is to be performed. The job plans are the same when undertaking duties, however the job plan may vary dependent of service needs. Job Plans will be discussed with the Clinical Director on appointment.
“Direct clinical care” (DCC) (work relating directly to assessment, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of illness) Includes outpatient and inpatient activities, multi-disciplinary meetings about and administration directly related to the above. “Supporting professional activities” (SPA) (that underpin direct clinical care) include participation in training, medical education, continuous professional development, formal teaching, audit, MDT clinical management and local clinical governance activities.
The working week for a full-time Elderly Care consultant is comprised of 10 PAs, each of which has a nominal timetable value of 4 hours. A consultant will spend 7.5 PAs on Direct Clinical Care with 2.5 PAs on supporting Professional Activities and clinical and educational roles for juniors.
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This advert is for Consultant in Elderly Care with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust in Walsall, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Geriatric Medicine role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Jun 2026.
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