Junior Clinical Fellow in Neurorehabilitation | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in the UK is seeking a dedicated individual to provide care on the neurorehabilitation ward. The role involves direct patient care, multidisciplinary team collaboration, and opportunities for clinical learning and personal educational development. Engaging in teaching and participating in both clinical and academic activities is essential. This is a fixed-term appointment for 12 months.

Benefits

Continuing Medical Education support

Access to modern education centres

Opportunities for personal educational goals

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical neurorehabilitation required.
• Participation in multidisciplinary team activities necessary.
• Ability to conduct family meetings and address advance care planning.

Responsibilities

• Be involved directly with the functioning of the neurorehabilitation ward.
• Participate in consultant-led ward rounds.
• Undertake administrative duties for patient care.
• Actively participate in teaching and training.

Skills

Clinical neurorehabilitation

Multidisciplinary team working

Communication skills

Audit process participation

Job description

This post is to provide care for inpatients on the neurorehabilitation ward. The post-holder should acquire considerable experience in clinical neurorehabilitation, and there are opportunities to contribute to the on-call general medical rota if the post holder wishes. Significant clinical learning opportunities are available, with weekly clinical and academic meetings, case presentations and frequent clinical teaching.

The appointment would be on a fixed term basis for 12 months in the first instance.





You will:-

- Be involved directly with the day to day functioning of Barton Ward, a 16 bed Neurorehabilitation ward.

- Participate in multidisciplinary team working (including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, mental health liaison) to promote patient independence and wellbeing, and proactive discharge planning.

-Participate in consultant- and registrar-led ward rounds, and also perform independent ward rounds under supervision.

- Undertake the administrative duties involved with the care of your patients.

- Develop communication skills (including obtaining collateral histories, conducting family meetings and addressing advance care planning needs)

- Maintain continuing education and professional development.

- Actively participate in the audit process and the quality improvement activity in the department.

Modern Education Centres are based at both Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital sites and offer excellent library and study facilities, including PC/Internet support for staff and students.

As a teaching hospital, we encourage all our staff to participate in teaching and training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We are committed to developing our teaching and academic activities and can facilitate meeting any training needs for these roles.

We support the requirements for Continuing Medical Education as laid down by the Royal Colleges and are committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

We are keen to support the postholder to achieve their personal educational goals, and can facilitate some time and opportunities to achieve this. Previous post-holders have thus gained further experience in quality improvement and teaching, and also explored future career choices.

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


This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025