SCF Geriatrics with special interest in falls
The closing date is 18 January 2026
Job summary
We are excited to be advertising fixed term Geriatrics and Frailty Senior Clinical Fellow posts with a Special Interest in Falls.
These posts are designed to be rotational with experience in the Acute Hospital (Queens, Romford) and Community-based Ageing Well Centre (St George's Wellbeing Hub, Romford). The post includes specialist falls-focused activities across a variety of settings including primary and secondary falls prevention in the falls clinic (AWC), assessment of patients presenting with falls at the front-door, as well as patients admitted to the hospital presenting primarily with fall, complications of fall or with falls identified through CGA.
The post includes Internal Medicine on-call at SpR level, as well as rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front-door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter-team liaison. The post holder would carry out falls quality improvement activities and participate in the training of others and be based within the COE inpatient team to gain general geriatrics inpatient experience to support development of the falls subspecialist interest.
Main duties of the job
The post includes Internal Medicine on-call at SpR level, as well as rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front-door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter-team liaison. The post holder would carry out falls quality improvement activities, participate in the training of others and be based within the COE inpatient team to gain general geriatrics inpatient experience to support development of the falls subspecialist interest.
Please see the attached JD for full details.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a newelectronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have beenrated goodby the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of theNorth East London Cancer Alliance
We run aWomen's Health Hubin Ilford; anAgeing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospitaland atSt George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be aLondon Living Wageemployer.
Some of the positive changes we've made are captured inthis film.
Details
Date posted
06 January 2026
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Doctor - other
Salary
£44,170 to £67,610 a year PER ANNUM
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-0359-AA-AT
Job locations
Queen's Hospital
Queen's Hospital
Romford/Ilford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Queen's Hospital
Queen's Hospital
Romford/Ilford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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