# Consultant Neurology

**Company**: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
**Location**: Woolwich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking a substantive Consultant Neurologist to be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. The successful applicant will provide a comprehensive, high-quality inpatient and outpatient Neurology service. The post is full-time, with a salary ranging from £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.

**Main Duties of the Job:** The job plan is indicative of the expected clinic and ward commitments. It will be revised once a suitable candidate is appointed, but the contribution of 3 OP clinics will not change. Full-time appointees are expected to do four clinics a week (4 hourly clinic = 1 PA) and would support one of them being a specialty clinic if of relevance to the trust. Each clinic will have 0.5PAs of admin time allocated as per ABN guidance.

**Specialist Clinics/Services:**

- Movement disorders/Parkinson's disease (including supervision of a PD nurse)

- Epilepsy clinic (including supervision of an epilepsy nurse)

- Neurorehabilitation (potentially including a monthly regional MDT; Monthly complex clinic and support to the spasticity service/specialist neuro-physiotherapist)

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide a comprehensive high-quality inpatient and outpatient Neurology service

- Undertake 3 neurology clinics each week (4 hours), and see an average of 7 new patients (30mins/patient) in each clinic

- Participate in ward referrals and cross-cover colleagues on leave

- Attend radiology/rehab MDTs

- Teach medical students in teaching sessions and in clinics/on ward rounds

- Contribute to departmental educational meetings and clinical supervision of doctors in training

- Undertake or supervise clinical audit and comply with Clinical Governance requirements

- Participate in continuing professional development at local and national level

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary (£113,565 to £150,569 per annum)

- Opportunities for professional development and research

- Supportive work environment with a focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion

## Skills

### Required
- GMC Specialist Register for Neurology
- Neurology background
- medical education
- clinical governance
- continuing professional development

### Nice to have
- specialist clinics/services
- research activity
- Kings College Hospital Academic neuroscience programme

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