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Consultant Neurologist

Barts Health NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Consultant
Deadline
11 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
20 Jun 2025

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Consultant Neurologist to join our dynamic team at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust – one of the largest and most ambitious healthcare organisations in the country. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop the Rapid Access Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) service, providing early neurorehabilitation to patients with complex neurological and trauma-related conditions. Alongside your leadership of the RAAR unit, you will contribute to our wider neurology service through outpatient clinics, acute neurology liaison and ward rounds, working collaboratively across a multidisciplinary team. You will join a supportive and forward-thinking neurology department with access to a dedicated clinical research unit, excellent secretarial support, and a strong culture of teaching and innovation. We are proud to serve a diverse and vibrant East London population and offer unrivalled opportunities for professional development, research collaboration through UCLPartners, and career progression across our network. Whether you are an established consultant or stepping into your first substantive post, we will support your growth with tailored mentoring and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for the best talent to lead our ambitious new healthcare organisation. In return, the Barts Health will provide unsurpassed professional development opportunities, enabling investment in a range of new initiatives that would mean:

  • doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway; • there would be greater opportunity for career progression – we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion; • becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world – who can share their knowledge and experience; • success breeds success. An organisation that is recognised as a world-leader will find it easier to recruit more staff, meaning we can work to reduce the number of persistent vacancies; • joining forces with other partners in an Academic Health Science System will mean that staff would be better able to secure funds and pool their talents to develop new technology, techniques and treatments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellent and efficient delivery of care. They will be expected to run the Rapid Access Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR service) alongside contributing to the general neurology service. They will work to agreed levels of activity and throughput in the outpatient department with the General Manager and Clinical Director. Other duties include:- • To contribute to the provision of a comprehensive and efficient acute and general neurology service. • To share responsibility with all consultant colleagues for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients, providing and receiving support to colleagues when required. • To have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers’ contracts. • To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies. • To maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary work with the specialties working closely and regularly with Neurology. • To encourage and foster clinical governance at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine. • To give advice, support and training to junior medical staff, and medical students. • Responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge including administrative duties associated with patient care. • Leadership and proper functioning of the services in his/her charge in line with agreed policies of the Trust. • Participation in quality and safety activities, including clinical audit. • To maintain own professional standards in keeping up to date with latest developments, including maintaining license to practice and validation, access to continued professional development activities and adding value to the Department