Consultant – Eldercare / Geriatric Medicine

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Job summary

Shape the Future of Geriatric Medicine in Cornwall.

Lead Innovation. Transform Care. Make a Lasting Impact.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is embarking on one of the most exciting periods of transformation in Older People’s Services and Frailty Care. With significant investment, an ambitious vision, and a commitment to redesigning services around the needs of an ageing population, there has never been a better time to join our team.

We are seeking forward-thinking Consultant Geriatricians who want more than a traditional consultant role. This is an opportunity to become a key architect of the future of frailty, Parkinson’s disease, stroke and community-based eldercare services across Cornwall.

Working within a progressive and highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will have the freedom to shape services, develop new pathways and drive innovation across acute, community and integrated care settings. Whether your passion is acute frailty, orthogeriatrics, movement disorders, dementia, stroke, community geriatrics or surgical liaison, we will support you to develop and grow your specialist interests.

Main duties of the job

Be Part of a Service Redesigning Care for Older People

Our vision goes beyond hospital walls.

From our award-winning frailty model and dedicated Frailty Take service, through to community rehabilitation, Parkinson’s disease services, stroke care and integrated multidisciplinary working, we are creating seamless pathways that deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

As a Consultant Geriatrician at RCHT, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Lead service transformation and quality improvement initiatives.
  • Develop pioneering approaches to frailty and complex care.
  • Shape emerging specialties such as surgical liaison and perioperative medicine.
  • Influence countywide care pathways alongside primary care, community and social care partners.
  • Participate in research and innovation programmes, particularly within Parkinson’s disease and frailty services.
  • Training of resident doctors

Build Your Career Around Your Passions

We recognise that exceptional consultants thrive when given the opportunity to pursue what inspires them.

Rather than fitting candidates into a predefined role, we will work with you to design a job plan that reflects your skills, interests and ambitions. We actively encourage leadership in service development, innovation, education, research and quality improvement

New consultants benefit from enhanced SPA time, dedicated mentoring and a supportive consultant body committed to professional growth and development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GMC Registration with a Licence to Practice. GMC Specialist Register or within six months of obtaining CCT (or equivalent) at time of interview.

Experience

Essential

  • Teaching (Medical students, peers, MDT). Experienced in Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance and the benefits of how this improves the quality of care provided to patients and ensuring this is embedded in clinical practice.

Practical and Intellectual Skills

Essential

  • Strong clinical and personal credibility, excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Flexible in approach and able to adapt

Additional Circumstances

Essential

  • Current and valid visa to allow work in the UK

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: 13 September 2026

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