Job summary
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.

About us
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

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
• Computer Literacy
• 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.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.