# Senior Clinical Fellow - Care of Older Adults

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £67325.00
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 2 months (ending on 07.10.2026)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28T14:45:53.008Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8162698
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8162698?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic doctor to join our highly regarded Care of Older Adults service at University Hospital Lewisham as a Senior Clinical Fellow (ST3+ Level) in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine. This fixed-term post has been created to provide compassionate leave cover and offers an excellent opportunity to develop specialist geriatric medicine skills while maintaining and enhancing acute general medical experience.

This role is ideal for candidates who have completed Core Medical Training (or equivalent) and are looking to strengthen their clinical experience, complete postgraduate examinations, or gain additional confidence before entering higher specialty training.

### Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

- Manage inpatients under Geriatric Medicine teams
- Participate in consultant-led ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings
- Assess and manage acute medical admissions
- Attend outpatient clinics and specialist services
- Liaise with patients, relatives and multidisciplinary teams
- Support the education and supervision of junior doctors and medical students
- Participate in quality improvement, audit and clinical governance activities
- Contribute to the General Medical on-call rota and provide cross-cover where required

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Although this is a non-training post, successful candidates will receive educational opportunities equivalent to those available to UK specialty trainees.

## Person Specification

### Health

**Essential**

- Meeting professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice)

### Eligibility

**Essential**

- - Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
- - Evidence of achievement of CT/ST2 competences in medicine at time of appointment, supported by evidence from work-based assessments of clinical performance (DOPS, Mini-CEX, CBD, ACAT) and multisource Feedback of equivalent.
- - Eligibility to work in the UK by intended start date

**Desirable**

- - Successful Completion of CMT (or equivalent)

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

**Desirable**

- - MRCP

### Language Skills

**Essential**

- - All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues demonstrated by one of the following:
- - That applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; or
- - Have the following scores in the academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) – Overall 7.5, Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7, Writing 7 or OET “Medicine” of Grade B or above in all domains.

### Career Progression

**Essential**

- - Ability to provide complete details of employment history
- - Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
- - Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period training
- - At least 24 months experience at ST/SHO level (not including foundation modules)

### Fitness to Practice

**Essential**

- - Is up to date and fit to practice safely

### Application Completion

**Essential**

- - Application to be completed fully

## Documents

- [working at lgt (pdf, 4.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2533)
- [candidates guidance on applying (pdf, 175.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2311)
- [candidate guidance on the use of ai (pdf, 3.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2312)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 723.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10493790)
- [visa and certificate of sponsorship information for applicants (pdf, 3.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2936)

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