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Job summary

Main area
Neurology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
289-SCD-LCON-0387
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Middlesex University Hospital
Town
Isleworth
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2024 23:59

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Locum Consultant Neurologist

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.

Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster.  Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Job overview

Job Summary

Are you looking for a job in a friendly department in a high performing Trust? Come and work with us! The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Locum Consultant Neurologist for General Neurology.

Applicants are invited to join a dynamic and forward-looking Neurology department. The successful candidate will join a close West Middlesex team of four neurology consultants and be part of the larger cross site department.

The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services in busy, but well supported hospital.

Main duties of the job

The neurology clinics at both sites are run on the ABN template with 30mins for a new patient and 15mins for a follow up. At West Middlesex University Hospital there is daily (Monday - Friday) consultant delivered referral service with variable referrals ranging from 1-5/day. The indicative job plan contains time for cross cover with ward referrals relating to consultant leave and will require flexibility from the appointee to help deliver this. 

Working for our organisation

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A provisional timetable denoting the allocation of fixed/non-fixed commitments is for Direct Clinical Care (DCC) 8.0 and Supporting professional activities (SPA) 2.0. The job plan will be subject to change in the future, subject to the needs of the service and in consultation with the post-holder

The post will initially attract 2.0 SPAs.  These are provided for personal CME/CPD, service development, audit, M&M, departmental meetings, mandatory training, appraisal and revalidation, and medical student teaching. At the first annual job plan review, the SPA allocation will be reviewed in line with Trust Policy. 

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC Registration
  • CCT in Neurology - equivalence must be confirmed by PMET/GMC by date of the interview
  • Entry on GMC Specialist Register OR eligible within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee
  • MRCP or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree i.e. PhD or MD
  • Peer reviewed research publications

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad experience in Neurology including Stroke
  • Teaching experience / willingness to teach medical, nursing & other staff
  • Experience of audit / clinical research
Desirable criteria
  • Experienced and competent in Stroke thrombolysis
  • Undertaken a management course
  • Understanding of the NHS and its organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
John Janssen
Job title
Neurology Service Director
Email address
[email protected]
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