Senior Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics and Neurorehabilitation

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Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics & Neurorehabilitation. The role involves working within a multidisciplinary team focusing on neurorehabilitation, including tasks like managing outpatient clinics and conducting botulinum toxin injections. Candidates must have GMC registration, MRCP qualifications, and experience in geriatric medicine. This full-time position offers competitive salaries and professional growth opportunities within an award-winning healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Completion of at least 4 years of full-time regular hospital service at the Specialty Registrar level.
• Previous experience in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Experience of working at a registrar level in geriatric medicine.

Responsibilities

• Work as a member of the neurorehabilitation multidisciplinary team.
• Assist with in-reach into medical wards and see neurorehabilitation referrals.
• Run neurorehabilitation outpatient clinics, manage spasticity, and perform botulinum toxin injections.

Skills

Good communication skills, both oral and written

Organised with work

Clear reasoning and diagnostic skills

Able to work independently and prioritise well

Tactful and diplomatic

Education

Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)

Have completed 2 of the 3 parts of MRCP

Full MRCP

Job description

Main area Geriatrics Grade Senior Clinical Fellow Contract Fixed term: 24 months (2 years) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (Fixed Term) Job ref 214-MED26-7657267

Employer: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Site: Kingsmill Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield. Salary: £65,048 pro rata per year. Closing: 23/02/2026 08:00

Senior Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics & Neurorehabilitation

The post is a Senior Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics & Neurorehabilitation. The post holder will work as part of the neurorehabilitation multidisciplinary team and be supervised by Dr Silva. The role includes in-reach into medical wards, assessing neurorehabilitation referrals on medical wards, neurorehabilitation outpatient clinics, spasticity management and botulinum toxin injections, with training as required.

Job overview

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement, and by working closely with the broader Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT).

The post will be based with the Neurorehabilitation team at Mansfield Community Hospital, with services also offered at Newark and Kings Mill Hospital. There are educational opportunities (weekly medical Grand Rounds, weekly Geriatric Department educational meetings) and opportunities for audit and Quality Improvement Projects while at the hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work as a member of the neurorehabilitation multidisciplinary team and be supervised as described above; responsibilities include assisting with in-reach into medical wards, seeing neurorehabilitation referrals on medical wards, running neurorehabilitation outpatient clinics, spasticity management and botulinum toxin injections, with training as required.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and aim to ensure every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. We expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a list of main responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• Have completed 2 of the 3 parts of MRCP
• Full MRCP

Experience

• The post holder must have completed at least 4 years full time regular hospital service at Specialty Registrar – Year 1 or 2 / F2 level or a higher grade with at least 4 months in Geriatrics and at least 4 months of registrar level (IMT3 or above) experience of general medicine on calls within the UK
• Previous experience in a multidisciplinary setting
• Experience of working at a registrar level in geriatric medicine

Teaching

• Experience with audit, teaching or quality improvement.
• Experience in teaching

Other

• Good communication skills, both oral and written
• Able to work independently and prioritise well
• Organised with work
• Clear reasoning and diagnostic skills
• Confidentiality essential
• Ability to seek and give advice when necessary
• Tactful and diplomatic

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