Consultant in Medicine for Older Adults with a focus on acute frailty
Join the NHS Lanarkshire Medicine for Older Adults department at University Hospital Wishaw as a committed and ambitious clinician. You will participate in all aspects of Medicine for Older Adults care, with a particular focus on acute frailty. You will also have the opportunity to develop any subspecialty interests you may have.
Acute Medicine for Older Adult services are delivered on all three acute Lanarkshire hospital sites, including acute frailty assessment, rehabilitation, and Hospital at Home. University Hospital Wishaw is the trauma centre for NHS Lanarkshire, so the majority of orthogeriatrics service is based within UHW. There is also an acute stroke ward, a movement disorder service, falls clinics, interim care beds for slow‑stream rehabilitation, intermediate care, and complex clinical care. The department is establishing an acute frailty unit and is working with the NHS Lanarkshire Frailty network to improve and deliver 21st‑century frailty services.
The department has recently centralised trauma services and is reviewing them to ensure alignment with Scottish Hip Fracture Audit targets while recognising increased silver trauma and future plans.
Applicants are encouraged to propose additional SPA time, beyond the standard 1 PA, especially if they have well‑developed ideas for service improvement, quality improvement, patient safety, medical education, research & development, or acting as an appraiser. Those wishing to start more than 1 PA for SPA duties should discuss proposals with the Recruitment Lead or Service Manager.
Part‑time or job‑share applicants are also encouraged to apply.
Informal enquiries are welcomed by Dr Helen Morgan, Clinical Lead for Medicine for Older Adults, University Hospital Wishaw (01698 366097); Dr Ben Adler, Clinical Director for Medicine and MOA, University Hospital Wishaw (01698 366097); or Dr Alison Falconer, Deputy Chief of Medical Service, University Hospital Wishaw (01698 366562).
For application queries, please email medical.dentalconsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk.
Interview date: 3rd February 2026
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make‑up of our society, where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care‑experienced or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.’
Care experienced applicants are people who live or have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is granted by the UK Border Agency and we are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points‑based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
Please follow the link below for further information on NHS Lanarkshire: Recruitment | NHS Lanarkshire (scot.nhs.uk).
Click here to view: NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Pack – Consultant Medicine for Older Adults: www.nhslanarkshire.org/recruitment-pack.
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