At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team providing high-quality neurology care and support across multiple hospital sites.
- Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a leading healthcare provider in the North West.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Engage in research, teaching, and service development within a thriving neurosciences community.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives while advancing your career in a collaborative setting.
- Qualifications: MRCP or equivalent, with a passion for neurology and patient-centred care.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant Neurologist to join our well-established Neurology Directorate at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a regional tertiary neurosciences service, supporting patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria while developing your clinical, teaching, leadership and research interests.
Our Neurology service provides specialist acute and outpatient care for a population of approximately 1.8 million people. You will join a supportive multidisciplinary team of consultant neurologists, neurophysiologists, neuroradiologists, neurorehabilitation consultants, specialist nurses, doctors in training and allied health professionals.
This post offers an attractive balance of outpatient neurology, inpatient input, multidisciplinary working, on-call participation, teaching and service development. We welcome applicants who are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and who want to contribute to the ongoing development of neurology services across the region.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide consultant-level neurology input across outpatient, inpatient and multidisciplinary settings. Clinical activity will include outpatient clinics at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and, depending on service need, peripheral hospital sites. The final job plan will be agreed through the consultant job planning process.
- Providing high-quality direct clinical care for neurology patients.
- Contributing to multidisciplinary team working and support coordinated care across hospital and regional pathways.
- Participating in the neurology on-call rota, currently operating on a week-on basis.
- Support inpatient care and investigation through access to beds within the Regional Neuroscience Unit at Royal Preston Hospital.
- Providing outpatient clinics at Royal Preston Hospital and other sites according to service need.
- Contributing to audit, clinical governance, service improvement and patient safety activity.
- Supporting undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including supervision of doctors in training.
- Maintaining professional development and participate in annual appraisal, revalidation and job planning.
About us
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute and specialist Trust in the North West, providing services from Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital. The Trust is the regional centre for a range of specialist services, including neurosciences, oncology, renal, vascular, plastics and major trauma.
The Neurosciences Centre at Royal Preston Hospital brings together neurology, neurosurgery, neurophysiology, neuroradiology, neuropathology and neurorehabilitation. The Neurology Directorate serves a broad and diverse population across Lancashire and South Cumbria and provides acute neurology, outpatient care and specialist support across multiple hospital sites.
We are proud of our commitment to education, research, innovation and excellent patient care. Neurosciences research is a priority clinical research theme for the Trust, and the department is actively involved in research and national and international programmes. There are opportunities for the successful candidate to contribute to research, education, leadership and service development.
Our values are centred on being caring and compassionate, recognising individuality, involving people in decisions, working together as one team and taking personal responsibility for delivering high standards of care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential: MRCP or equivalent postgraduate general medical experience. Within 6 months of appointment, must gain CCT in neurology or equivalent training obtained outside the EU leading to entry on the specialist register.
- Desirable: Post-CCT fellowship training in Epilepsy or Neuromuscular Disorders.
Research and Development
- Essential: Evidence of interest in personal development, e.g. through research and/or publications.
- Desirable: Track record of research.
Experience
- Essential: Wide range of clinical experience in neurology. Subspecialty expertise.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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