Consultant Geriatrician - Care Elderly

This post is for a consultant in Geriatric Medicine. This is a whole‑time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

This post will enable the Department of Medicine for Older People to ensure that the Trust continues to deliver specialist care to patients within care of the elderly, Ortho‑Geriatrics and frailty.

Applicants are required to hold Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK or equivalent qualifications), to be fully registered with the General Medical Council, and to be on the Specialist Register or due to obtain their CCT within six months of the date of interview.

Please note, interviews for this process will be held on Tuesday 14th April 2026.

• Carry out inpatient elderly care ward and board rounds. (14 Inpatients)
• Ensure that Estimated Discharge Dates are set on admission for inpatients.
• Support delivery of national targets (18 weeks, new to follow up ratios, length of stay)
• Provide training and supervision to junior doctors.
• Provide training and support to specialist practitioners.
• Participate in rolling teaching programme.
• Engage fully in consultant appraisal with a view to achieving revalidation.
• Provide support/sessions in ED if required.

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday

• Southport – COE Unit (15 beds)
• SPA
• Southport – COE Unit (15 beds)
• Southport – COE Unit (15 beds)
• Southport – PTWR (on call)

• ADMIN
• Southport – Ortho‑Geriatrics Ward Referrals
• ADMIN
• SPA
• Southport – Ortho‑Geriatrics Ward Referrals
• SPA

• 10 PA's
  • 3 to cover Ward round/Board round
  • 2 to cover Ortho‑Geriatric support
  • 1 PTWR (on call)*
  • Admin – 1.5
  • SPA – 2.5
• * On call – in 14 week cycle – 4 weekday on call (9 am‑7 pm Resident) = 2.5 PA's per weekday on call (4 × 2.5 = 10)
• 1 weekend on call (9 am‑3 pm Resident) = 4 PA's per weekend on call
• * 14 week on call cycle = 14 PA's – 1 PA per week in Job plan (PTWR (on call) plus 3 % uplift)
• Total PA's = 10

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 650,000 people, with a workforce of around 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (MWL) is one of the UK’s largest Trusts. The Trust provides a wide range of healthcare services at 5 hospitals and 16 community sites to people across St Helens, Knowsley, Halton, Southport, Ormskirk, parts of Liverpool and the surrounding areas.

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Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and on Specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview
• Applica…