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 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 September 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
• Geriatrics Campaign >
• launching our new Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch (September 2024), 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

There's a lot of challenges every day and there's lots of opportunities - Dr Khalid Haque Consultant Geriatrician

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

Any Geriatrician joining us has the opportunity to make this job their own

The opportunities 

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is expanding its forward-looking Geriatrics services and is seeking enthusiastic Consultant Geriatricians to join the team.

Applications are welcomed from general Geriatricians and from consultants with sub-specialty interests, including Dementia, Delirium, Orthogeriatrics, Medical Education, and Movement Disorders.

You will work across acute and community settings, supporting service transformation for older people across North East London. The role spans Acute Geriatrics services at Queen’s and King George Hospitals and the Ageing Well Centre at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.

The post goes beyond traditional ward based care and provides real scope to influence pathways, partnerships, education, and population-level outcomes for frail older adults.

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