Consultant in Elderly Medicine

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant in Elderly Medicine to join our dedicated team at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and deliver high‑quality, patient‑centred care for older adults across acute and community settings. You will play a key role in shaping services for frailty, complex care, and chronic conditions, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve outcomes and enhance quality of life.

The successful candidate will be GMC registered with specialist accreditation in Geriatric Medicine and demonstrate strong clinical leadership, innovation, and a passion for elderly care. In return, we offer a supportive environment with opportunities for teaching, research, and service development, alongside flexible working options and excellent work‑life balance. You will provide clinical and managerial leadership to an acute elderly care ward at the Chorley Hospital site, paired with an existing consultant colleague.

You will also develop a subspecialty area of interest (eg. frailty, liaison/in‑reach or community).

• Provide direct input to an elderly medicine ward, assuming a continuous commitment for the care of ward inpatients, even if employed less than full‑time, ensuring adequate arrangements for leave and off‑duty periods. Ward in‑patient numbers are typically 14 care‑of‑the‑elderly patients and up to 5 outlying general medicine patients.
• Carry out a general geriatrics, falls, specialty or ‘hot’ clinic. Opportunity to develop an area of sub‑speciality (eg. continence, frailty ‘hot’ clinics, dementia clinics). Typical clinic numbers are 5 new and 2 follow‑up patients.
• Develop a subspecialty service (e.g. frailty, liaison/ in‑reach or community) to be determined in discussion with the department.
• Participate in the General (Internal) Medicine 1:10 consultant on‑call rota, including conducting the ‘Post‑Take’ ward round.
• Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintaining continuing professional development.

GMC registered with specialist accreditation in Geriatric Medicine. Demonstrated strong clinical leadership, innovation, and a passion for elderly care.

Informal enquiries and requests to visit the hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Mr. Steve Canty, Medical Director, and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692. Please apply promptly; the vacancy may close earlier than the published date.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute Trust in the North West of England with over 1,000 beds for a resident population of 390,000 and a regional population of 1.5 million. It is the tertiary centre for major trauma, neuroscience, renal, oncology and plastic surgery/burns for Lancashire and South Cumbria.