Specialty Doctor in Geriatric Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has been developed to join the Geriatric Medicine Department based at UHW working within our acute inpatient wards. We are currently developing our acute frailty pathway to ensure older patients that present to UHW have timely access to comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) alongside treatment for their acute condition and this post will enable us to deliver excellent care for older people through their admission journey.

Main duties of the job

We have a long-embedded team based at the ‘front door’ of the hospital to prevent unnecessary admission of older people, alongside and Older Person’s Acute Medical Unit to ensure those that need a short stay can access frailty attuned care. We plan to further enhance this pathway by ensure those that need a longer stay have access to further specialist care and are re-designing the services across our inpatient wards to support this. This speciality doctor post has been created to provide robust support and continuity for the care of patients that are cared for in this pathway.

The successful candidate will be based one of our specialist geriatric medicine inpatient wards. The post holder will work alongside consultant geriatrician, resident doctors and a wider MDT to support the routine care of older inpatients and delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in this area.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MBBS or recognised equivalent
  • Current GMC registration with full licence to practise

Desirable

  • Academic excellence (prizes, merits, distinctions etc.)

Other requirements (e.g. on-call duty)

Essential

  • Satisfactory immigration / right to work status
  • Satisfactory Occupational Health clearance
  • Satisfactory Disclosure (DBS) check or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or part-time equivalent), at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as fixed-term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty, OR equivalent experience / competencies

Desirable

  • Assessment of emergencies
  • Experience working within the frailty multidisciplinary team

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

Essential

  • Evidence of effective team and multidisciplinary working
  • Up to date with current medical practices
  • Ability to take appropriate clinical decisions when necessary
  • Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
  • Values aligned to those of the Health Board
  • Values aligned to those of the Health Board

Desirable

  • Audit
  • Teaching
  • Computing skills
  • Research interests relevant to the specialty

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Motivated and efficient
  • Able to relate to patients, staff and medical colleagues
  • Flexible, caring and hard working
  • Evidence of ability to work both in a team and alone

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: 28 October 2026

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