Consultant Geriatrician

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 132,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on everyday purchases

Wages as you earn

Wellbeing resources

CPD opportunities

Innovation funding

Excellent care ratings

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Consultant Geriatrician to lead our Hospital at Home service across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. You will shape pathways, support senior decision making, and drive innovative, home-based acute care with a multidisciplinary team.

In this role you will advance governance, quality improvement, and strategic service transformation, aiming to reduce admissions and deliver high-quality, patient-centered care for older people in their homes.

Qualifications

• MRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification is essential.
• Current GMC registration is required.
• CCT, CESR, or European Community rights in Geriatric Medicine.
• Extensive medical experience at registrar or consultant level.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership and frailty expertise for Hospital at Home.
• Shaping clinical pathways and facilitating complex decision making across BSW.
• Drive service improvement, governance, and workforce development.
• Collaborate with acute, community, and primary care to ensure integrated care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Executive communication

Strategic planning

Team motivation

Data-driven decisions

Education

MRCP (UK) or equivalent

GMC registration

CCT/CESR/EC rights in Geriatric Medicine

Registrar/Consultant level experience

Clinical governance knowledge

Job description

Job Introduction

As an Consultant Geriatrician, you’ll be part of our valued team in our Hospital at Home service working across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).

With a competitive salary of £131, 581.00 - £136,645.00 (Medical and Dental Payscale) and access to the NHS Pension, this position is designed to reward your dedication and skills.

You’ll benefit from exclusive perks such as:

• Financial Savings: Discounts on everyday purchases, cashback, and vouchers for special moments through My Reward Hub .
• Flexible Pay Access: Get your wages as you earn them, avoiding financial stress during life’s emergencies.
• Wellbeing Support: Comprehensive online and face-to-face resources for mental and physical health, career coaching, counselling, and post-trauma assistance.
• Continuous Development: Access bespoke career pathways, eLearning, and ongoing CPD opportunities through our ‘Outstanding’ learning team, The Learning Enterprise .
• Innovative Environment: Work within an open culture that values your ideas, supported by £100,000 annually in innovation funding to help you shape the future of health and care.
• Commitment to Excellence: Join a team with a proven track record of high-quality care, with most services rated as "Good" or "Outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission.

Are you a Consultant Geriatrician who wants to shape the future of healthcare for older people?

Join our innovative Hospital at Home (H@H) service and play a leading role in delivering acute hospital-level care in patient's own homes across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. This is a unique opportunity to move beyond the traditional consultant role and influence care at a system wide level.

As the senior clinical lead for H@H, you will drive service development, provide expert frailty leadership, support complex clinical decision making, and help create new pathways that reduce hospital admissions and promote home first care. Working with a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will champion innovative models of care that improve outcomes and patient experience.

This role offers the chance to shape strategy, strengthen partnerships across acute, community and primary care services, and lead clinical governance, quality improvement and service transformation across the BSW system.

If you're passionate about frailty care, innovation and leading meaningful change, this is an exciting opportunity to help redefine how acute healthcare is delivered and make a lasting impact on the lives of older people.

If you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Scott on

Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

As the Consultant Geriatrician for our Hospital at Home Team, you will provide senior clinical leadership and specialist frailty expertise to support the delivery and development of innovative hospital-level care in patient's own homes across BSW. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, operational leaders and system partners, you will help shape clinical pathways, support complex decision-making, champion best practice in frailty care, and drive service improvement. You will play a key role in strengthening partnerships across acute, community, primary care and urgent care services, ensuring integrated, patient centered care that supports admission avoidance and home first approaches. The role also includes leading clinical governance, quality improvement, workforce development and strategic service transformation to ensure Hospital at Home continues to deliver safe, effective and sustainable care for older people.

Please see the attached for the full job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• Entry on the GMC
• One of CCT, CESR, European community rights in Geriatric Medicine
• Extensive medical experience at registrar or consultant level
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance
• Experience of working with managers to improve patient experience and service delivery
• Experience in clinical audit
• Understanding of clinical research
• Proven ability to motivate, support and work within a multi-disciplinary team
• High professional and ethical standards
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A commitment to continuous professional development
• Good IT skills
• Ability to balance competing pressures and proven ability to organise and priorities workload, delegating as appropriate

Desirable

• Relevant higher degree (MD/PhD)
• Qualification in Teaching & Learning
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Special interest or advanced experience in community geriatrics
• Involvement in service development and enacting change
• Ability to lead clinical services
• Involvement in research
• Experience in teaching practically a multi-professional team
• Advanced leadership skills

Other requirements:

• Full UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Willingness to work across different Trust areas as required.
• Flexible availability to meet service demands.
• The role includes participation in an on-call rota to provide senior operational leadership and decision-making support outside of normal working hours, as required

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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