CONSULTANT IN NEUROLOGY WITH A SPECIALIST INTEREST IN EPILEPSY

Job overview

Applications are invited for a whole time Consultant Neurologist post providing exciting opportunities in the care of people with Epilepsy and also additional opportunities for clinical research in epilepsy. The post will be based on the John Radcliffe Hospital site.  Sessions will be divided between general clinical neurology with a specialist interest in epilepsy.

This is a substantive 10 PA post (8.5 Direct Clinical Care, 1.5 Supporting Professional Activity). The appointee will join the established OUH Epilepsy team, working closely with the specialist nurses.

The appointee will be expected to participate in the on-call rota and may be required to work on any other site as required by the OUH Trust in the future.

For further details, candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Professor Arjune Sen, [email protected], Consultant Neurologist and Head of Oxford Epilepsy Research Group and Dr George Hadjipavlou, [email protected], Clinical Director of Neurosciences.

Main duties of the job

The postholder’s duties will cover the breadth of service provision across several fields:

Clinical

The post-holder will be expected to perform at the level of a Consultant Epileptologist at a tertiary Hospital. They will run their own epilepsy clinics, supervise an SPR led first seizure clinic, and work closely with the Epilepsy Specialist Nursing team. The post-holder will be expected to work patients up for resective surgery, intracranial recording, and neuromodulatory therapies. The postholder will be an active part of epilepsy-related MDT meetings. They will cover in-patients on the video-telemetry unit and help in the management of complex epilepsy patients across OUHFT. They will be required to integrate closely with the wider epilepsy team, which includes neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, neuropsychiatrists, neurosurgeons, ward nursing, technologists, secretarial teams and multiple aligned health professionals. The postholder will also be on the general neurology on-call rota.

Research

The successful candidate will be well supported in both clinical and academic aspects by the current Epilepsy Consultants and established research infrastructure.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder’s duties will cover the breadth of service provision across several fields:

Clinical

The post-holder will be expected to perform at the level of a Consultant Epileptologist at a tertiary Hospital. They will run their own epilepsy clinics, supervise an SPR led first seizure clinic, and work closely with the Epilepsy Specialist Nursing team. The post-holder will be expected to work patients up for resective surgery, intracranial recording, and neuromodulatory therapies. The postholder will be an active part of epilepsy-related MDT meetings. They will cover in-patients on the video-telemetry unit and help in the management of complex epilepsy patients across OUHFT. They will be required to integrate closely with the wider epilepsy team, which includes neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, neuropsychiatrists, neurosurgeons, ward nursing, technologists, secretarial teams and multiple aligned health professionals. The postholder will also be on the general neurology on-call rota.

Research

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder's contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review

The successful candidate will be well supported in both clinical and academic aspects by the current Epilepsy Consultants and established research infrastructure.

• Clinical Teaching/Research

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital Trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder's contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.

• General

The post-holder will assume a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of his/her department. The post holder will be provided with secretarial support from the Trauma unit secretarial team and will be provided with shared consultant office space and desktop PC with associated infrastructure to facilitate the performance of his/her duties.