Consultant Neurologist

NHS; North East; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant Neurologist for a full-time role to provide specialized services in motor neurone disease and general neurology. The position includes clinical responsibilities, engagement in research, and opportunities for professional growth supported by funding for clinical trials over the first three years.

Qualifications

• Training in all aspects of Neurology.
• Advanced experience in clinical MND service as subspecialty.
• Evidence of managing independent clinical practice at consultant level.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist motor neurone disease service.
• Contribute to the acute neurology service and on-call out of hours service.
• Develop leadership and networking skills.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

Research methodology

Audit participation

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register

MD, PhD or equivalent in relevant area

Job description

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Neurologist

The closing date is 06 July 2025

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team. We strongly encourage informal contact from interested clinicians. This is a substantive, full-time post ideal for someone at the start or mid-point of their consultant career. Roughly half the clinical work will be general neurology, contributing to the acute service and outpatients service, and half contributing to the subspecialty motor neurone disease service. We are already a research active centre, with both commercial and investigator led trials. We have secured funding for one day a week through the Doddy Weir foundation for the first three years to facilitate the successful candidate in developing and contributing to clinical trials and academic research activity which will hopefully be self-funding from that point on. Should this not be the case, we would guarantee the option of a full-time NHS clinical job. While advertised as full-time, we would be happy to consider less than full time working or full-time working in a compressed job plan. We are more than happy to be approached to discuss how the illustrative plan below might be adjusted to meet a candidate's preferences.

Main duties of the job

Provide a specialist motor neurone disease service

o Outpatient clinics and MDT

o Local and regional expert advice

o Develop leadership and networking skills to provide/support clinical leadership for the service in the future

o Continue to develop and support national MND network and centre profile (e.g. membership of national MND clinical studies group (CSG) and MND trial portfolio management group).

Provide an attending acute neurology service (typically 4 weeks a year)

Contribute to on-call out of hours and weekend service (4 weeks a year)

About us

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

o Freeman Hospitalo Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)o Newcastle Dental Hospitalo Newcastle Fertility Centreo Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbriao Northern Genetics Serviceo Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

This is a full time substantive post based at the Royal Victoria infirmary in Newcastle. Clinical work will be roughly 50/50 general neurology/motor neuron disease. Motor neuron disease clinics are based nearby the Campus for Aging and Vitality. For the first three years, we have secured one day a week funding from the Doddy Weir Foundation to allow the candidate to participate in the current clinical trials programme and build-up a personal research portfolio which will hopefully be self-sustaining. There are existing NHS schemes to facilitate development of clinical academics and this is an ideal starting point to explore this.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC Registration.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
• MD, PhD or equivalent in relevant area

Clinical Experience

• Training and experience in all aspects of Neurology.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion for elective outpatient general neurology
• Ability to manage independently the acute neurology service and hospital liaison service at a tertiary centre
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion in motor neurone disease and related conditions
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
• Advanced experience in clinical MND service as subspecialty
• Evidence of managing independent clinical practice at consultant level

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
• An understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
• Evidence of leadership / project management.
• Evidence of having implemented change.
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education.

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
• Research/critical review of literature.
• Publications in the last five years.

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit.
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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