Consultant Geriatrician

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).

Some Of Your Additional Roles Include

• 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 are made 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. You will provide oversight and clinical supervision for resident doctors attached to your ward.
• Carry out a general geriatrics, falls, specialty or ‘hot’ clinic. There will be 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 (eg. 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 the maintenance of continuing professional development.
  
  

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute Trusts in the North West of England with all the main specialties. The Trust has a complement of over 1,000 beds for a resident population of 390,000 and a regional population of 1.5 million. We are the tertiary centre for major trauma, neurosciences, renal, oncology and plastic surgery/burns for Lancashire and South Cumbria. Undergraduate medical student teaching commenced here in 2003 and considerable opportunities exist for research and development which are integral to Teaching Hospital status.

There are two main hospital sites; Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital. Both Preston and Chorley have excellent rail and road links, and there is good access to Manchester airport. Recreational and sports facilities are many and varied, with the Lake District, Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland areas of outstanding beauty all within an hour drive.

The development and expansion of the Elderly Medicine services at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is very high on the Trust’s agenda. We are looking for a hardworking, motivated and innovative consultant colleague to further develop our elderly care services. You will be responsible for caring for patients on the acute elderly care ward at Chorley Hospital and developing a subspecialty interest of your choice.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Thomas Thorp Job title: Clinical Director and Consultant Geriatrician Email address: thomas.thorp@lthtr.nhs.uk