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Consultant Neurologist

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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

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

Participate in departmental work in providing general outpatient neurology services Provide a specialist motor neurone disease service Outpatient clinics and MDT Local and regional expert advice Develop leadership and networking skills to provide/support clinical leadership for the service in the future 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)

Working for our organisation

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

Freeman Hospital Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site) Newcastle Dental Hospital Newcastle Fertility Centre Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria Northern Genetics Service 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

Detailed Job Description And Main 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

Essential criteria

Primary Medical Qualification. Full GMC Registration. Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).

Desirable criteria

MD, PhD or equivalent in relevant area

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

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.

Desirable criteria

Advanced experience in clinical MND service as subspecialty Evidence of managing independent clinical practice at consultant level

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty. Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines. An understanding of Clinical Governance.

Desirable criteria

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

Essential criteria

Experience of supervising junior medical staff. Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.

Desirable criteria

Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills. Postgraduate qualification in medical education.

Research

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

Higher degree.

Audit

Essential criteria

Evidence of participation in audit.

Desirable criteria

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

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

Job Description (PDF, 676.3KB) Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB) Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Victoria Cowan Job title HR Advisor Email address victoria.cowan2@nhs.netSeniority level

Seniority levelNot Applicable Employment type

Employment typeFull-time Job function

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