About this role
Job summary
Join Wye Valley NHS Trust as a Consultant Geriatrician or Orthogeriatrician and play a pivotal role in shaping care for older patients across our purpose-built Frailty Unit and community services.
You'll be part of a progressive, supportive team that values innovation, collaboration, and flexibility to develop your subspecialty interests. We offer an excellent work-life balance in Herefordshire--one of England's most beautiful and safest counties--alongside strong professional development opportunities including dedicated SPA time for CPD, teaching, and research, plus involvement in NIHR and commercial trials.
With options for flexible working and a trust culture that prioritises staff wellbeing and career progression, this is your chance to make a real difference while enjoying a rewarding lifestyle.
AAC Date to be confirmed.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant Geriatrician, you will provide high-quality inpatient and outpatient care for older patients, including acute frailty management, community hospital input, and support for our Front Door Frailty team.
Your responsibilities include:
Leading ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings across our 72-bed Frailty Unit. Participating in the general medicine on-call rota (1:13 overnight, Monday-Thursday) and specialty weekend cover (1 in 6). Delivering outpatient clinics and supporting discharge planning. Contributing to clinical governance, audit, and research, with dedicated SPA time for CPD and teaching. Working collaboratively to develop services and mentor junior doctors and ACPs.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Job description Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications Essential
Full GMC registration, and on the specialist register in GIM and Geriatric Medicine with proven skills and up-to-date experience in GIM and Geriatric Medicine OR Full GMC registration, and within 6 months of specialist registration in GIM and Geriatric Medicine due to completion of training (or within 6 months of specialist registration) in GIM and Geriatric Medicine, with proven skills and up-to date experience in GIM and Geriatric Medicine from completion of training, or application via GMC CESR with the submission completed at time of interview in either case. MRCP or equivalent
Experience & Knowledge Essential
Experience in the management of a broad general medicine caseload Experience in the management of a Orthogeriatric Medicine caseload, and appropriate subspecialty training
Desirable
Current ALS certificate or equivalent Experience in a subspecialist interest that will complement those of other staff
Skills and Abilities Essential
Possession of the clinical skills required to perform the job including acute medicine and general internal medicine Ability and evidence of working as part of a multidisciplinary team Willingness and ability to fulfil the key elements of the job description including the shift pattern required Ability to cope with the demands of a DGH-based consultant Ability to lead and develop the service Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual, multi-professional and team basis with all levels of staff Ability to communicate effectively, written and orally Ability to empathise and demonstrate probity Ability to be flexible to meet service demands Understanding of clinical governance and the individual responsibilities it implies
Audit and Research Essential
Knowledge of multidisciplinary clinical audit principles Ability to critically assess published research and incorporate it into clinical practice where appropriate
Desirable
Evidence of direct involvement in 2 specific medical quality improvement projects in the last 18 months Evidence of involvement in a research project
Management and Teaching Essential
Ability to work effectively and constructively with management Evidence of effective teaching of medical students, doctors in training and the multidisciplinary team. Ability to present effectively to an audience using a variety of methods.
Desirable
Evidence of formal management training Training and/or evidence in areas such as leadership, planning and change management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address Hereford County Hospital - Wye Valley NHS Trust
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)