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NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST3-5)
Main area Clinical Neurology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST3-5) Contract Fixed term: 3 years (with a view to extend for another year) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 321-NOTS-MS-7052147-S6
Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £61,825 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/05/2025 23:59
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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.
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, 2 Specialist Nurses, a new 2 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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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, 2 Specialist Nurses, a new 2 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).
This service will attract patients mainly from the Southern UK and is a joint National Service with the Liverpool team led by Dr Saif Huda. It involves inpatient assessments and treatment of NMO patients, phone advice to doctors, patients, families and their carers, audit of the service including helping to maintain the database, help in developing the highly specialized service. The NMO fellow will be expected to carry out research studies in NMO and encouraged to obtain a higher degree and to gain experience in presenting and talking at meetings.
The candidate would normally have completed their core medical training and wish for a career in Neurology.
The candidate is expected to obtain a higher research degree during this post.
Clinical and basic science research is integrated within the NMO team. These include focusing on Neuroimmunology experimental models, imaging research, neuropathology and treatment trials. It is expected the post holder will closely collaborate with the Liverpool NMO fellow and the team based there, assessing the functional implications of these, identifying specific phenotypes and testing new drugs.
This post is an exciting opportunity to develop a broad publication portfolio and the post holder will be encouraged to present their work at national and international meetings.
Person specification
Experience
* General core medical or paediatric training completed.
Research
* Ability to undertake direct original clinical research in the neurosciences.
* Ability to write papers and ability to be able to analyze data with training.
Skills
* Leadership – ability to motivate and aid other members of the team.
* Organisational skills
* Good personal/interpersonal skills
* Flexibility, ability to multitask and motivate others
* Good spoken and written English
* Able to take on responsibility and communicate within the team.
* Basic computing skills
* Basic Analysis skills.
Knowledge
* Good general medical knowledge at level expected of core medical training
* Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS
Driving
* Due to need to visit outreach sites the person should be able to drive and own a car
* MRCP/ MRCPCH or equivalent
* GMC registration
* Evidence of interest in a Neurological Specialty.
* Demyelination
* NMO interest
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