NHS LOTHIAN
254890 Clinical Fellow East Lothian Community Hospital Inpatient Unit
East Lothian Community Hospital
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Applications are welcome for the above fixed term, full time (40 hours per week) post based in East Lothian Community Hospital.
The successful candidate will join the current multidisciplinary Medicine of the Elderly Team who support the inpatient acute assessment, rehabilitation and Health Board Complex Clinical Care (HBCCC) wards. The new post holder will provide medical input to the orthogeriatric rehabilitation ward at East Lothian Community Hospital, supporting the existing senior medical staff and providing medical support. This ward, (Ward 5) provides Pan-Lothian rehabilitation to patients in the early post-op period after orthopaedic trauma. Patients are transferred from the acute site from Day 3 onwards and so you may be managing some post-op complications such as pneumonia, wound infections and anaemia. The successful candidate will also provide cross-cover of other general MOE areas. There is a very strong ethos of multidisciplinary team working within the hospital so it is important that any candidate for this role has a collaborative approach to medical practice and ideally experience of working within a MDT with physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing colleagues and other Allied Health Professionals.
The post does not have educational approval from the Postgraduate Dean and will not be recognised for training.
For an informal discussion or further information please contact:
Dr Jenny Harrison
Clinical Lead for Older People’s Services, East Lothian
East Lothian Community Hospital
Tel: 01620 642798 (secretary)
Email: [email protected]
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Closing Date: 03/08/2026
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