A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We're delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity in Paediatric Neurology for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our team.
Successful applicants will provide day-to-day clinical cover helping maintain continuity for the inpatient service as well as working in outpatient clinics. They will work with registrars including "Grid" specialty trainees in Paediatric Neurology and supporting the supervision of more junior staff. There are also opportunities for training in quality improvement and medical education work.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The Paediatric Neurology service includes a large multidisciplinary team that provides a comprehensive range of specialist care for children and young people across the north of England. Newcastle is the regional centre for an area up to the Scottish border, as far south as North Yorkshire and across to the west coast of Cumbria (a total population of ~ 500,000 children across ~16,000 km2): the team work with colleagues in smaller hospitals across the region, up to 150km away)
Outpatient work typically focuses on needs of children with epilepsy and tone and seizure problems associated with cerebral palsy as well as follow-up of children who have been admitted as inpatients with acute neurological illness. Inpatient admissions follow brain trauma, infection, inflammation, or metabolic disease, and for investigation of suspected neurological and neurogenetic conditions.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Dr Robert Forsyth via email at rob.forsyth@nhs.net.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
In-hours clinical duties
In-hours duties (split with other registrars and under consultant supervision) include attendance at general and specialty neurology outpatient clinics; MDT meetings; care of neurology inpatients; neurology consults to other specialty patients, general paediatrics, neonatology and intensive care; review of patients as day cases.
The post holders will be expected to undertake ward rounds and clinical reviews as required. This will always be with the support of a Consultant. They will also need to support junior colleagues (F2, GPTVS, and Paeds ST1-3) with less experience in neurology.
Out of hours duties
This post does not contain any on call commitment. Potential contribution to on call rotas could be negotiated should the successful candidate wish.
Professional Development Opportunities
An active education programme runs with early morning teaching, including a radiology meeting and journal club, most days of the week, as well as lunchtime meetings and other opportunities.
All fellows have an allocated educational supervisor. Study leave entitlement is equivalent to that of the specialist trainees and is granted by the trainee’s education supervisor. The successful applicant will be encouraged to develop clinical service guidelines, complete audits and Quality Improvement Projects and to become involved in one of the many research projects run in the hospital.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025
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