Neurophysiology Consultant

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust seeks a substantive Consultant Neurophysiologist based at Hertford County Hospital. You will conduct regular EMG clinics, EEG reporting and Evoked potential reporting, and work with our Neurology and Neurophysiology teams.

There may be occasional inpatient EMG at the Lister Hospital site. You will contribute to day-to-day service management, participate in MDT meetings, drive clinical governance and continuing medical education, and support

Qualifications

• UK-registered medical consultant with neurophysiology experience.
• Experience in EMG/EEG and neurophysiology reporting.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary teamwork and continuous medical education.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality patient-centered care.
• Share day-to-day service management and contribute to strategic planning.
• Engage in teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service.
• Participate in MDT meetings and directorate clinical governance activities.
• Contribute to continuing medical education and service improvements.

Skills

EMG interpretation

EEG reporting

Evoked potentials

Clinical governance

Teaching

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neurology department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

We are looking to recruit to a substantive Consultant Neurophysiologist post based at Hertford County Hospital which comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs). There is no on-call commitment.

The successful applicant will work closely with our present Neurology and Neurophysiology team as well as other departments including paediatrics, orthopaedics, plastic surgery and rheumatology. The appointee will undertake regular EMG clinics, EEG reporting and Evoked potential reporting at Hertford County Hospital. There may be an occasional requirement to undertake inpatient EMG at the Lister Hospital site.

• Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical education

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We Run The Following Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Phil Wilkinson Job title: Clinical Director Neurology Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01438 288357