Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a paediatric neurologist to join the team at the Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation for 0.1 WTE.  The service is the interdisciplinary specialist provider of paediatric neurorehabilitation for the East of England and has close links with Addenbrookes Hospital.  The post holder will be responsible for supporting the long-term neurological needs of children and young people after acquired brain injury (ABI).  The service works with children up to the age of 19 in the community in collaboration with local teams.  This is an essential role to ensure that the medical needs continue to be met for children and families after childhood ABI.

Main duties of the job

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11.   Advising on triaging, care pathways and signposting

22. Linking with local, regional and national teams to ensure comprehensive clinical information is available

33. Requesting, reviewing and sharing imaging (CT and MRI) to inform MDT formulation

  4  Advising on medication

55. Linking with the CUH inpatient pathway via Major Trauma and medical ABI services

66  Linking with CUH outpatient pathway – ABI clinic, neurosurgery and ENT

77. Contributing to complex formulation, including providing background  context from the inpatient stay (where applicable)

88. Driving service innovation and development in conjunction with CPFT and CUH leadership and operational teams

99. Providing senior clinical advice across the network and supporting decision making

110.  Advising on wider medical issues raised to CCPNR team eg possible  seizures, headaches and making referrals where necessary

111. Facilitating active ‘in-reach’ while the child is still in hospital

   The work will take the form of:

1.    Attendance at team clinical meetings (alternate weeks Wednesday AM for 1.5 hours)

2.     Attendance at weekly consultation session (alternate weeks Wednesday AM for 1 hour)

3.    Phone advice to CCPNR and partners in other centres, radiology review, gathering of clinical information, liaison with other services, triage, medication advice, report writing, business development, CPD. ( 0.5 - 1 hours per week)

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk