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The National Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Service is a Highly Specialised service funded by NHS England for patients with the rare diseases NMOSD (spectrum diseases) and Myelin Oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody associated disease (MOGAD). The services are situated in Oxford and Liverpool to cover England and Scotland with some outreach clinics and an assay service in Oxford. Patients are also seen from Wales and Northern (and southern) Ireland under agreement.
Main duties of the job
Job overview
The National Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Service is a Highly Specialised service funded by NHS England for patients with the rare diseases NMOSD (spectrum diseases) and Myelin Oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody associated disease (MOGAD). The services are situated in Oxford and Liverpool to cover England and Scotland with some outreach clinics and an assay service in Oxford. Patients are also seen from Wales and Northern (and southern) Ireland under agreement.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
The post holder’s clinical duties will be primarily in the neurology department and with close collaboration with the Walton Centre Liverpool NMO Team.
Aims and responsibilities of post:
Under Consultant supervision to act as one of two clinical neurology fellows to work within the National Commissioned Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Team based in Oxford (the national service is shared between Oxford and Liverpool). It will cover paediatric and adult patients, with adults making up the majority, along with a paediatric fellow and the other NMO fellow.
Clinical:
The NMO clinical service covers outpatient clinics which are attended by Professor Palace, Dr Leite (Consultant Neurologists) and Dr Ramdas (Paediatric Neurologist) and Miss Sharma (Neuro-ophthalmology Consultant), two NMO Fellows cross covering each other, Specialist Nurses, a new day psychology post recently agreed, Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapist.
The inpatient service is divided into adult admissions (on the neurosciences ward or the West Wing investigation unit), and the paediatric admissions (on the Paediatric ward under Dr Ramdas).
The candidate would normally have completed their core medical training and wish for a career in Neurology.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
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