# Senior Clinical Fellow in Elderly Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Preston
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Geriatric Medicine
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £67,325 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (.)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (1:13 On-call)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-24T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T08:13:08.590Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Chorley/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Geriatric_Medicine/Geriatric_Medicine-v7984889
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7984889?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Working within a supportive and education-focused environment and within the Elderly Care service as detailed within the attached specialty brochure, you will provide registrar-level experience in a teaching hospital with all the main medical sub-specialities.

This role would particularly suit doctors who have completed CMT and individuals with equivalent experience who are looking to progress to speciality training and for those looking to go down the non-consultant career grade or SAS route.

### Main duties of the job

You will be working at registrar level in Elderly medicine at Chorley Hospital in an Elderly Care department with 4 Consultant Geriatricians.  Your team will consist of 1 Consultant and 2 Junior Clinical Fellows. You will be responsible to the Consultant Geriatricians, predominantly working on Rookwood B ward at Chorley Hospital.

We would expect you to lead ward rounds, typically consisting of 16 patients and also support consultant led ward rounds.

In this role you will gain experience in both acute and elderly medicine and would be excellent preparation for a doctor looking to enter specialist training post in geriatric medicine and /or general medicine.

In this post there will be opportunities to develop skills in stroke rehabilitation, falls, dementia, Parkinson’s disease and frailty. We encourage subspecialty interests and these can be arranged in movement disorders, palliative care and old age psychiatry liaison.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

- What we can offer
- Job Plan/On-call Requirements
- The Team

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- At least three years working in hospital medicine following primary medical qualification
- At least 2 years working in general internal medicine or a medical speciality

**Desirable**

- Completion of core medical training or equivalent
- Experience in Geriatrics
- Computer Literacy
- Experience of required practical procedures

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
- MBChB or equivalent
- MRCP Part 1

**Desirable**

- Full MRCP
- Valid ALS

## Documents

- [438-ms3238 jdps (pdf, 336.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341360)
- [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464)
- [main recruitment pack 24 (pdf, 387.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2212)
- [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433)

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