Consultant in Geriatric Medicine

Woodston Personnel is seeking an experienced **Consultant in Geriatric Medicine** to join the team of a leading hospital in Saudi Arabia. The Consultant Geriatrician provides expert, patient-centered care for older adults with complex medical, functional, cognitive, and social needs. This role involves leading multidisciplinary teams, delivering inpatient and outpatient geriatrics services, supporting community-based care, and contributing to service development, teaching, and research.

**Duties and Responsbilities**

- Provide specialist assessment and management for older adults with multimorbidity, frailty, polypharmacy issues, functional decline, cognitive impairment, and geriatric syndromes.

- Lead Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments (CGA) in inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and community settings.

- Manage acute and chronic medical conditions common in the elderly, including falls, delirium, dementia, stroke, mobility disorders, and end-of-life care needs.

- Lead ward rounds in geriatric wards, frailty units, acute medical units, orthogeriatric services, or rehabilitation settings as appropriate.

- Support perioperative medicine for older or high-risk surgical patients, collaborating with surgery and anesthesia teams.

- Participate in on-call rota for acute or general medical services as required.

- Coordinate safe discharge planning and continuity of care with community, social care, and rehabilitation services.

- Lead and supervise multidisciplinary teams including nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, and case managers.

- Develop and implement clinical pathways and protocols for frailty, falls, dementia, delirium, and complex discharge management.

- Contribute to strategic planning, quality improvement, and service redesign to enhance care for older adults.

- Participate in governance, risk management, morbidity and mortality reviews, and departmental committees.

- Collaborate with community, primary care, and long-term care services to strengthen integrated geriatric care.

- Supervise and mentor junior doctors, geriatric medicine trainees, students, and allied health professionals.

- Provide formal and informal teaching on topics related to ageing, geriatrics, and general internal medicine.

- Contribute to educational programs, curriculum development, and professional development activities.

- Provide compassionate, person-centered communication with patients and their families regarding diagnoses, treatment options, prognosis, advance care planning, and goals of care.

- Facilitate family meetings, complex decision-making, and discussions around capacity, consent, and safeguarding.

- Ensure robust documentation and communication across care teams.

- Participate in or lead clinical research, audits, and academic activities relevant to geriatrics.

- Support data collection, clinical governance, and evidence-based improvements in elderly care services.

- Present findings through conferences, publications, or internal forums.

- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation in medical records and electronic systems.

- Attend departmental meetings, multidisciplinary conferences, and clinical governance sessions.

- Contribute to audit cycles, service evaluations, and policy development.

- Assist with rota planning and departmental organizational tasks where required.

Full time contracts with excellent renumeration and benefits available

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

US Board/ FRCS - Irish, UK, Canadian, New Zealand or Australian/ Diploma d'Etudes Specialises (DES)/ CIS French Board/ Fachart & Sub
- Board/ Fellowship / Board / Fellowship / Sweden / BelgiuM/Finland / Spain

Must have at least 3-5 years of post-consultant or senior specialist experience

Eligible for consultant licensure with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS)