Join us - Consultant Geriatricians
Join our team
At Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT), we are transforming the way we care for older patients. We have ambitious plans to deliver proactive, compassionate and integrated care for frail and ageing people across Barking, Havering and Redbridge. We are now recruiting three new consultant geriatricians to join us in delivering this vision.
Our sites
- Queen’s Hospital: A busy acute hospital in Romford, home to a hyper-acute stroke unit and major services.
- King George Hospital: Our Ilford site with an acute frailty unit and strong links with community partners.
- Ageing Well Centre: Opened in November 2024, this hub brings together hospital, community, diagnostics and social care.
Our vision for frailty care
Providing high-quality, coordinated care for older adults can be challenging. Hospital admissions are often avoidable and can have negative impacts such as deconditioning, delirium, malnutrition and loss of independence.
That is why we are changing the model of care:
- shifting to a proactive approach that identifies frailty early, prevents deterioration and can even reverse frailty levels
- offering same- and next-day urgent assessment appointments and rapid access to short-term intravenous therapies
- expanding our frailty virtual ward — opened in October 2023 — delivering hospital at home for up to 45 patients with consultant-led, multidisciplinary care
- Innovating and improving our new Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch, a multi-provider hub bringing together hospital, primary care, community services, diagnostics and social care
Alongside these, you will find acute frailty units at both Queen’s and King George hospitals, the frail and older people’s advisory and liaison service (FOPALS) in the emergency department, a strong orthogeriatric service and specialist outpatient clinics at St George’s Ageing Well Centre.
Voices from our team
Dr Khalid Haque - Consultant Geriatrician
There's a lot of challenges every day and there's lots of opportunities
Dr Simon Green, Associate Medical Director
If you have a particular special interest, you can come and work with us and develop it, and we can support you to do that
Alexia - Clinical Group Director of Operations
Any Geriatrician joining us has the opportunity to make this job their own
The opportunities
Consultant Geriatrician
Work across Queen’s Hospital or King George Hospital and the Ageing Well Centre. Deliver acute ward care, comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and urgent assessment clinics, typically managing around 15 patients on ward rounds. Develop or lead on an area of subspecialist interest.
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Consultant Geriatrician – acute geriatrics
Based mainly at Queen’s frailty unit, you will care for patients admitted via ED and GP referral, providing acute medical input and CGA within a multidisciplinary team. You will also support clinics at the Ageing Well Centre and our frailty virtual ward.
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Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in movement disorders
Alongside your geriatric work, join our neurosciences team. You will contribute to deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin clinics, manage complex Parkinson’s disease and strengthen pathways across frailty, wards and community care.
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Why BHRUT?
- a forward-thinking trust recognised for improvement and innovation
- a new Ageing Well Centre shaping the future of frailty care
- one of the UK’s most diverse populations to serve
- opportunities to teach, train and research
- a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment with strong community partnerships
Informal contact
To arrange an informal conversation with Associate Medical Director. Dr Simon Green about any of the roles, please contact Sophie Adams, Geriatrics Clinical Group PA:
email: sophie.adams16@nhs.net
phone: 01708 435 000 ext 4833