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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
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
Job description
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