Consultant Neurologist WM

Job overview

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint 5 Consultant Neurologists to work cross site and across specialities to support and expand the work of the exiting team. Applicants are invited to join a growing, dynamic and forward-looking department of neurology and stroke medicine.

The successful candidates will join a close team based at the Chelsea site made up of eight consultant neurologists and a stroke consultant.

The wider department includes a further five consultant neurologists and three consultant stroke physicians based at the West Middlesex site.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services in busy, but well supported hospitals. The appointment will be 10PAs; this includes 5.5 PAs at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 2.5 PAs at the Regional Neurosciences Unit at Charing Cross Hospital and 2 PAs at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital, where the successful candidate will review inpatients requiring Neurology input (as part of a team of four Consultant Neurologists). The post includes two general neurology clinics and a specialist pain clinic at Chelsea & Westminster and a further general neurology clinic at Charing Cross. The appointee will participate in the Regional neurology and stroke on call rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a close team of eight existing neurology consultants, and a stroke consultant, at the Chelsea site. The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services, in a busy, but well supported hospitals.

• The post holder will deliver comprehensive care for patients admitted to the ward under their team.
• The post holder will also undertake ward rounds and conduct multidisciplinary meetings.
• The post holder will be responsible for prompt discharge planning of neurology patients under his/her care.
• The post holder will be supported by junior medical staff, a neurology nurse specialist and a neurology pharmacist.
• The post offers immense opportunities for teaching and training junior doctors and medical students. The post holder will be expected to support the training of juniors to the unit. Professional supervision of the junior medical staff who will have the opportunity to learn on a one to one basis both formal and informal ward rounds, and also on an ad hoc basis throughout the day.
• Provision with Consultant colleagues of a service to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation NHS Trust, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.
• An active part in the educational programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the service.
• Participate in relevant audit and quality assurance processes, including reviews of manpower requirements