Job summary
- Main area
- Neurology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 359-MSD-741
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Town
- Maidstone/ Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Neurologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Consultant Neurologist
Quality of life but close to London? Come to beautiful and affluent west Kent, with two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and many excellent state grammar schools. Live in a country village or market town and yet be close to London and France.
Our expanding service needs a new Consultant Neurologist. Duties will be at either Maidstone Hospital and/or Tunbridge Wells Hospital depending on clinical need. This post includes outpatients, inpatient liaison, and teaching students at Kent & Medway Medical School, but at present is not part of an on call rota. There are CPD sessions at King’s College Hospital (currently these may optionally be attended virtually).
We encourage neurologists to offer a subspecialty clinic. We would be interested in appointing a candidate with an interest in epilepsy, but the job is open to candidates with any subspecialist interest or none.
We are happy to consider adjusting the job plan to suit the successful candidate. We will consider applicants who wish to work less than full time.
The appointee will work with our ten existing neurologists, two neurology specialty registrars, two IMT3 doctors and six specialist nurses. The Trust also provides services in neuroradiology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-oncology and hyperacute stroke unit (but this post has no commitment to cover stroke).
To discuss the post please contact Dr Rob Hadden, Clinical Lead for Neurology, on 01892 834286 or email [email protected]
Closing date: 8th April 2025
Interview date: 2nd May 2025 (in person, Maidstone).
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England. We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.
To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.
To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
To provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP(UK) or equivalent
- General Medical Council (GMC) specialist registration for neurology via either (a) Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) for Neurology (or equivalent), or expected no later than 6 months after the interview, or (b) Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)
Desirable criteria
- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, eg BSc, MSc MD, PhD or equivalent
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understand the principles of audit
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit projects
Research
Essential criteria
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rob Hadden
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892 834286
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