SCF Geriatrics with special interest in falls

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SCF Geriatrics with Special Interest in Falls

The closing date is 18 January 2026

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, assessment of patients presenting with falls at the front door, as well as patients admitted to the hospital presenting primarily with a fall, complications of fall or with falls identified through CGA.

The post holder will 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.

Main duties of the job

Internal Medicine on call at SP level, rotational experience through orthogeriatrics, front door geriatrics and acute COE wards, with falls clinic and inter team liaison. The post holder will 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.

About us

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 are campaigning to secure the £35 m we need to transform A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford, an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St 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 can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We are proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full Registration with the GMC
• Full MRCP
• Valid ALS
• Other relevant post graduate degrees or diplomas

Skills / Qaulifications

• Core procedural skills in line with completion of IMT or equivalent.
• Experience in UK health system.
• 2 years experience at ST3+ level in a UK Geri Medicine post including internal medicine on calls

Professional /personal

• QIP or audit completion.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work in the multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to prioritise and communicate in different situations and under pressure.
• Teaching experience / certificate

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust