Senior Clinical Fellow in Elderly Medicine
Job summary
Working within a supportive and education-focussed environment and within the Elderly Care service as detailed within the attached specialty brochure, the post-holder 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. You will work in an Elderly Care department with 4 Consultant Geriatricians.Your team consists of 1 Consultant and 2 Junior Clinical Fellows. and you will be responsible to the Consultant Geriatricians, predominantly workingon Rookwood B ward at Chorley Hospital.
You will lead ward rounds, typically consisting of 16 patients. and will also providesupport to consultant led ward rounds. You will also beinvolved in the general medicine on-call rota (as the other middle grades and consultants are involved).The on-call is based on the medical admissions unit (MAU) at ChorleyHospitaland a period of shadowing can be provided before taking up the on-call in full.
Within the role, there willalsobe opportunities to perform procedures, develop communicationskills (including obtaining collateral histories and advance care planning)andparticipatein multidisciplinary team working (including physiotherapy, occupational therapy,speechand language therapy). You canexpect training in both general medicine and comprehensive geriatric assessment.
It is expected that you willparticipate in the weekly departmental meeting and medical grand round. In addition,there is amonthlymeeting to discuss clinical governance issues.
About us
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute trusts in the Northwest of England withall ofthe usual specialties on site, as well as being a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in the Departments of Neurosciences, Nephrology, Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Burns. Undergraduate medical student teachingcommencedin 2003.
The Medical Directorateis responsible forthe provision of a full range of medical services across the Preston and Chorley hospital sites.
This includes the following: Acute Medicine Emergency Medicine Diabetes and Endocrinology Gastroenterology Medicine for the Elderly Stroke Medicine Respiratory Medicine Renal Medicine Neurology Cardiology Medicine for the Elderly has expanded recently with the establishment of an acute frailty assessment unit (AFAU) at Preston, hot clinics in the community and 4 new consultant appointments within the last 3 years.
We have good relationships with our local CCG and with the local GPs: the community hot clinic is housed at a local GP practice. The care of the elderly wards at both Preston and Chorley have been fully refurbished (2014) and are now dementia and elderlyfriendly with level 2 quality awards.
Job 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
Qualifications · Essential
Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice MBChB or equivalent MRCP Part 1
Desirable
Full MRCP Valid ALS
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 Experience of required practical procedures
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
