Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in General Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Health and Community Services

Job summary

Interview dates for this post will be confirmed shortly and published within this advertisement. As part of the selection process, shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a formal face-to-face interview and a stakeholder panel. Candidates will also be expected to be on the island the day before their interview to take part in an engagement day, providing an opportunity to meet and engage with a range of key stakeholders. Further details, including confirmed dates, will be published as soon as they become available. Please check this advertisement regularly for updates.

This post is an exciting opportunity to join the Geriatric and Frailty Department. The role will mainly focus on the development of frailty services for the island of Jersey as well as having inpatient ward commitments.

The role will be integral to the development of a frailty service, as well as interfacing secondary care with primary care. The role may have a rotational commitment for rehabilitation as well as outpatient clinical sessions.

For newly appointed consultants a mentor will be allocated to support their induction to the post.

We aim to provide a suitable office space, and secretarial time will be provided as part of the Hospital investment in this appointment.

Main duties of the job

Contribute to development of the Geriatric Medicine service in Jersey -to build and develop a frailty service which ensures integration between primary and secondary careProvide with the other Consultants a system of mutual out-of-hours cover for General Internal Medicine and cover for annual, study and professional leave.Provide a consultation and advisory service to medical colleagues in other specialities in Health and Care Jersey.Liaise with medical staff in other specialities and participate in the regular clinical meetings and other post-graduate activities of the hospital.Take part in the continuing medical education programme. Health and Care Jersey will provide study leave expenses in line with national terms and conditions of service.To undertake outpatient clinics for both frailty & geriatric medicine.To set-up, lead, participate and attend relevant MDTs.To liaise with tertiary referral centres as appropriate to provide patient centred care and service improvements.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • Hepatitis Vaccination

Leadership and Management Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly with colleagues to develop & provide Care of the Elderly services
  • Ability to Work Effectively with a Multi-Disciplinary Team, motivating and influencing others through their enthusiasm.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses, management and other agencies.
  • Highly motivated
  • Able to work within a team
  • Experience of Teaching, Training & Supervision of Resident Medical Staff and undergraduate students
  • An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to:
  • Empower others
  • Lead through change
  • Influence strategically
  • Collaborative working
  • Drive for Improvement
  • Integrity

Qualifications

Essential

  • Primary Medical Degree
  • Full Registration and specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current License to practice (for overseas candidates it is mandatory that a license is obtained prior to appointment).
  • Higher Specialty qualification: MRCP & FRCPath or equivalent Qualifications for Specialist Registration
  • Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
  • Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
  • Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent in the relevant Specialty (or be within 6 months of obtaining this at the date of the interview – documentary evidence of this must be provided to support your application) or equivalent

Desirable

  • Relevant experience at a consultant level in a similar setting
  • Higher Degree MSc, MD or PhD or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Experience in GIM and Geriatric Medicine
  • Participation on a general medicine on-call rota at a consultant level
  • Evidence of successful interface between secondary and primary care

Desirable

  • Enthusiastic Teacher
  • Management Responsibility / Leadership Experience
  • Participant on the on-call consultant rota partial resident-on call on weekend ward rounds

Specialist Experience

Essential

  • Experience in prevention and management of frailty

Desirable

  • Experience working in an acute frailty unit
  • Clinical management of rehabilitation patients
  • Treatment and management of patients with delirium

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).

Closing Date: 19 November 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.