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.
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 1 6 patients and also support consultant led ward rounds.
In this role you will gain experience in both acute and elderly m edicine 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 s ubspecialty interests and these can be arranged in movement disorders, palliative c are and old age psychiatry liaison.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute trusts in the Northwest of England with all of the 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 teaching commenced in 2003.
We offer the full range of acute outpatient and inpatient services to the 380,000 people living in Central Lancashire.
Services are provided across two sites: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital. The Medical Directorate is responsible for the 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
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
