Consultant Neurology

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust invites applications for a substantive consultant neurologist based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich to deliver high-quality inpatient and outpatient neurology services.

The post is full-time; applicants must be on GMC Specialist Register for Neurology or within six months of CCT. Duties include four clinics per week, ward referrals, cross-cover, teaching medical students, and involvement in MDTs and research.

Qualifications

• Must be on GMC Specialist Register for Neurology or within six months of obtaining CCT.
• Provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient Neurology service.
• Teaching and supervising medical students and junior staff may be required.

Responsibilities

• Cover four clinics per week (4 hourly clinic = 1 PA).
• Cross-cover colleagues on leave and attend radiology/rehab MDTs.
• Teach medical students in teaching sessions and in clinics/ ward rounds.
• Support relevant research activity.

Skills

Neurology expertise

Teaching/mentoring

Education

GMC Specialist Register or near CCT

Job description

The Trust is looking to recruit one substantive consultant neurologist to be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site to ensure that patients have access to high quality neurology services locally in a timely manner. This post will be based full time at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Queen Elizabeth site in Wooleich.

Applicants must be included on the GMC Specialist Register for Neurology or be within six months of obtaining their CCT at the date of interview. The successful applicant will provide a comprehensive high-quality inpatient and outpatient Neurology service., This job plan is indicative of the expected clinic and ward commitments. It will be revised once suitable candidate is appointed, but the contribution of 3 OP clinics will not change. Full time appointees are expected to do four clinics a week (4 hourly clinic = 1 PA) and would support one of them being a specialty clinic if of relevance to the trust. Each clinic will have 0.5PAs of admin time allocated as per ABN guidance. Specialist clinics/services that would be of particular interest are: a. Movement disorders/ Parkinsons disease (including supervision of a PD nurse), Epilepsy clinic (including supervision of an epilepsy nurse) and neurorehabilitation (potentially including a monthly regional MDT; Monthly complex clinic and support to the spasticity service/ specialist neuro-physiotherapist). We expect that at least one of the clinics will have medical students (teaching clinic). Full time appointees will be expected to do up to 1.5 days of ward referrals a week and to cross-cover colleagues on leave They are expected to attend radiology/ rehab MDTs. We are a teaching site for Guys, Kings & St Thomas (GSTT) Medical school and appointees will be expected to teach medical students in teaching sessions and in clinics/ on ward rounds. The trust encourages research and will support relevant research activity.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream