# Consultant in Geriatric Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Free Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113565.00 to £150569.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T10:08:39.589Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8275730
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8275730?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Hospital are inviting applicants to apply for a consultant geriatrician post in the Department of Health Services for Elderly People (HSEP) at the Hampstead site.

The successful applicant will be joining a group of 11 dynamic, forward looking consultants to deliver high quality care for older patients.

Applicants will be expected to have suitable experience in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine (GIM). On call is for acute geriatric medicine on a 1 in 10. There is also a commitment to teaching and educationally supervising medical students.

### Main duties of the job

This role will be predominantly focused on TREAT(Triage and Rapid Elderly Assessment Team). The TREAT service delivers early Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) for older adults presenting with frailty in line with NHS England Acute Frailty and British Geriatric Society guidance. The role will also support a consultant-led liaison service to frail and complex patients on the HSEP (Health Services for Elderly People) ward and developing our frailty liaison service. Clinical supervision and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level will also be an important aspect of this role. The appointee will also work closely and in partnership with our Acute Medicine colleagues as well as the wider multidisciplinary team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document which will provide a more detailed description of role and main responsibilities.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Aptitudes

**Essential**

- Aptitude for teaching and training.
- Ability to cover out of hours on call.
- Demonstrable commitment to multidisciplinary team working.
- Positive approach to lessons learnt.
- IT Skills
- Presentation skills

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Clinical training and experience as required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in Acute and/or General (Internal) Medicine and Infectious Disease
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
- Experience of and commitment to medical audit
- Current ALS provider

### Royal Free Shared Commitments

**Essential**

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.

### Education and Professional Qualifications

**Essential**

- MBBS or equivalent
- Registered with the GMC and within 6 months (at the scheduled time of the appointments committee) of being accepted for the specialist registers for Geriatric Medicine and General (Internal) Medicine
- MRCP or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Postgraduate medical degree (MD, PhD or equivalent)

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 400.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591605)
- [ps (pdf, 120.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591606)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 144.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591607)
- [medical and dental - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 655.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2754)

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