Job summary
- Main area
- Neurology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Possibility of role becoming permanent)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 151-WPHLCON-07
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park hosital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Neurologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Job overview
This is a fixed term Locum Consultant Neurologist role at Wexham Park Hospital. The job is a full-time post comprising 10 Programmed Activities (PAs). The term will be for 12 months initially with possibility of extension.
Applicants are invited to make contact for further information and arrange a visit.
Main duties of the job
4 PAs General Neurology outpatient clinics at WPH (or satellite sites), 3 PAs Inpatient Consultations, 2 PAs Admin and 1 PA SPA.
Duties of consultants in the department also include:
- Teaching Lectures / Workshops for other departments, trainees, nurses, midwives, GPs.
- Prospective cover of urgent ward reviews when colleagues are on leave.
- Triaging of neurology outpatient referrals and GP advice & guidance/queries.
- Supervision of clinical fellows and specialist nurses.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details please see the job description.
Applicants are encouraged to make contact for further discussions regarding the role and arrange a visit.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
- CCST in neurology or within 6 months of CCST with satisfactory PYA from Deanery.
- Full GMC registration and a license to practice
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree e.g. MD PhD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide clinical experience of general management principles in adult neurology
- Previous experience in participating in under graduate and post graduate teaching
- Understand principles and participated in audit activity
- Understand the principles of Clinical Governance and demonstrate experience of evidence based practice
Desirable criteria
- Interest in epilepsy or multiple sclerosis
- To have completed a Training and Trainers course
- Previous participation in MRCP & student teaching
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to evaluate own clinical practice
- Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to organise and develop service provision
Desirable criteria
- Computer literate – confident in using MS Office, Email and Internet
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to be proactive
- Demonstrate being an effective team member
- Able to demonstrate leadership qualities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Silvia Messina
- Job title
- Consultant Neurologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 3091
- Additional information
Dr Krishna Chinthapalli, Consultant Neurologist, Wexham Park Hospital
0300 615 3091, [email protected]
Dr Jeremy Stern, Neurology lead, FHFT
0300 613 5705, [email protected]
Dr Chris Orchard, Chief of Service for Medicine, FHFT
0300 613 6203, [email protected]
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