In this role you will be w orking within a supportive and educationally focused environment and will be providing junior level experience (equivalent to FY2/ST1-2) in a teaching hospital with in all the main medical sub-specialities.

This post is based at Royal Preston Hospital, and you will be an integral part of our team and will be involved directly with the day-to-day functioning of Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) , E mergency department (ED ) and Same day emergency care ( SDEC ) . There may be some cross site working as and when required .

This post will be until 31st March 2027.

You will be required to work closely with GP and Emergency Department colleagues while accepting patients for assessment in SDEC .

Our SDEC accepts ED ambulatory patients and GP referrals, who are assessed by ACPs and junior doctors in the unit. These patients are reviewed by senior decision makers and then a final management plan is made. The majority of the patients are discharged with follow up plans as required .

Working on the SDEC provides good learning opportunities with one-to-one interactions with consultants and registrars.

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

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