Locum Consultant in Spinal Injuries

Job overview

This post is for a Locum Consultant in Spinal Injuries based at the Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries (MCSI), The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This opportunity is for an additional post within the unit.

The appropriate appointee will have completed their specialist training in spinal injuries within the requirements of the rehabilitation medicine training program and have acquired skills that will contribute to service developments within the Spinal Injuries Centre. Applications are encouraged from consultant with a rehabilitation or relevant surgical (pressure ulcer management, urology etc) background. Alternatively, applicants must be able to demonstrate evidence of previous training and experience sufficient to satisfy accreditation in spinal injuries at consultant level.

Main duties of the job

Delivery of patient care through the spinal cord injury service

We are looking for a full time Consultant in Spinal injuries to provide an effective, sustainable, consultant clinical service that can be flexible and responsive to the changing context around spinal cord injury care.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• facilitate interdisciplinary care and coordinated medical management.
• promote and support the rehabilitation process, delivered through the MCSI’s patient centred goal planning system.
• provide a sound contribution of medical knowledge, expertise and diagnostic acumen related to spinal cord injury, the associated multi-system dysfunction and pathophysiological consequences.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• facilitate interdisciplinary care and coordinated medical management.
• promote and support the rehabilitation process, delivered through the MCSI’s patient centred goal planning system.
• provide a sound contribution of medical knowledge, expertise and diagnostic acumen related to spinal cord injury, the associated multi-system dysfunction and pathophysiological consequences.
• ensure diagnosis and prognosis are accurate; treatments preserve function with minimal side effects
• management of medical conditions is integrated with the rehabilitation process.
• provide effective prevention, detection and treatment strategies for medical complications
• communicate with patients (and significant others and health care workers when relevant), in appropriate and understandable ways so that there is informed participation and consent in their management, tailored to the clinical situation.
• counsel patients and their relatives or significant others during the initial acute stage, during difficult or crisis situations and for specific issues such as work and sexual functioning.   This includes organisation of, or onward referral for, family supportact as an advocate: eg in negotiations with community and funding authorities, providing information for medico-legal proceedings, conflict/disagreement resolution.