Consultant Neurologist

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team.  We strongly encourage informal contact from interested clinicians.  This is a substantive, full-time post ideal for someone at the start or mid-point of their consultant career.  Roughly half the clinical work will be general neurology, contributing to the acute service and outpatients service, and half contributing to the subspecialty motor neurone disease service.  We are already a research active centre, with both commercial and investigator led trials. We have secured funding for one day a week through the Doddy Weir foundation for the first three years to facilitate the successful candidate in developing and contributing to clinical trials and academic research activity which will hopefully be self-funding from that point on.  Should this not be the case, we would guarantee the option of a full-time NHS clinical job.  While advertised as full-time, we would be happy to consider less than full time working or full-time working in a compressed job plan.  We are more than happy to be approached to discuss how the illustrative plan below might be adjusted to meet a candidate’s preferences.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in departmental work in providing general outpatient neurology services
• Provide a specialist motor neurone disease service
• Outpatient clinics and MDT
• Local and regional expert advice
• Develop leadership and networking skills to provide/support clinical leadership for the service in the future
• Continue to develop and support national MND network  and centre profile (e.g. membership of national MND clinical studies group (CSG) and MND trial portfolio management group).
• Provide an attending acute neurology service (typically 4 weeks a year)
• Contribute to on-call out of hours and weekend service (4 weeks a year)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a full time substantive post based at the Royal Victoria infirmary in Newcastle.  Clinical work will be roughly 50/50 general neurology/motor neuron disease.  Motor neuron disease clinics are based nearby the Campus for Aging and Vitality.  For the first three years, we have secured one day a week funding from the Doddy Weir Foundation to allow the candidate to participate in the current clinical trials programme and build-up a personal research portfolio which will hopefully be self-sustaining.  There are existing NHS schemes to facilitate development of clinical academics and this is an ideal starting point to explore this.