Consultant in Geriatric & General Medicine

Overview

Offers are open for two candidates to join the department of Older People’s Medicine at Ipswich Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) as substantive consultant. Full time, part time and flexible working opportunities will be considered. It is an exciting time to join the trust as we plan the roll out of Epic, our new electronic health record in 2025.

This forward thinking and innovative department develops services in the heart of the community. We care for patients in their homes using the virtual ward, and through the whole journey within the acute hospital—from specialist assessment in the emergency department to seamless specialist care in our frailty services.

Our Enhanced Welcome package includes an additional £12,000 and relocation costs to thank you for choosing to work at our trust and your new journey with ESNEFT.

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The successful candidate will share a complex Older Peoples Ward with a colleague and will be responsible for 14 inpatients. This is supported by a team of juniors—middle grade, CMT and FY1 doctors. Ward cover will involve a daily consultant-led board round, regular ward rounds and time for relatives meetings as well as monthly clinical governance meetings. The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership to the progressive, innovative multidisciplinary ward team, in conjunction with the other consultant and ward sister.

This post includes 2 Frailty Assessment sessions per week, involving seeing up to 4 patients with the specialist nursing, pharmacy and therapy team in the Frailty Assessment Base for a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. We have access to dietitian, community therapy and REACT. There will be a share of covering the "hot phone"—a mobile phone enabling GP or community therapist to phone for advice (currently 2–8 calls a day) as part of the FAB session.

The number of FAB sessions per week can be altered to accommodate the sub-specialty interest of the successful candidate (e.g., Movement Disorder, Falls, Surgical Liaison, Interface Geriatrics and Frailty). The post also involves joining a consultant colleague covering 14 patients on a complex short stay frailty unit, supported by an SpR, CMT and two FY1 doctors.

Details Date posted: 30 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade:
Consultant
• Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 per year
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Contract:

Permanent
• Working pattern:
Full-time
• Reference number: 432-MI2809
• Job locations:
Ipswich Hospital, Heath Road, Ipswich, IP4 5PD

As part of a major investment programme, Ipswich Hospital has approved a significant investment to deliver a transformative model for managing inpatient medical and older persons care. This model, designed collaboratively by consultant leads across acute medicine, older peoples services and medical specialties, aims to deliver:

• Appropriately resourced 7-day consultant working
• Strengthened GIM rota to improve rotas, balance workload, reduce burden on clinicians at Medical Take
• Innovation in patient care and service delivery, enabling the right patient to see the right clinician, at the right time (7 days per week)
• Early access to specialist advice
• Overall, greatly improved quality of care and sustainable consultant job plans

The post-holder will:

• Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
• Develop care pathways and clinical guidelines with the multi-professional team
• Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E
• Collaborate with tertiary centres, community services and primary care
• Offer leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other multidisciplinary team members

Clinical Responsibilities

The key duties and responsibilities are:

• General responsibilities including participation in the Consultant on-call rota
• Specialist Clinics
• Outpatient clinics
• Operating: as per specialty
• Teaching
• Other care of inpatients or outpatients
• Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
• Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
• Participation in Clinical…