Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Neurology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-MED-24-6247970
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £55,329 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinic Fellow Paediatric Neurology
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
This is a fixed term 6-12 month post clinical fellow post in Paediatric Neurology in Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to support the Neurology team.
The post holder will be expected to deliver stand-alone outpatient clinics and support the provision of inpatient neurology care. Evening and weekend cover may be requested in rotation with other neurology senior fellows and trainees.
This job description describes the principal clinical duties of the appointee and the support that will be available. The post-holder will report through the Clinical Lead for Neurology to the Service Group lead with professional support from the Neurology team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected to gain wide range of experience in all aspects of tertiary paediatric neurology delivered at Alder Hey.
The appointee will have the opportunity to participate in the acute and long-term assessment and management of children with a wide range of neurological disorders in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Working for our organisation
The new Alder Hey Children’s Health Park has opened in October 2015, and has dedicated Neurology and Neurosurgery Wards and Neurophysiology Department.
The Neurology Ward admits children requiring inpatient neuro-rehabilitation with integrated facilities including therapy rooms and a specialist rehabilitation school classroom. The neurophysiology department is located between the Neurology and Neurosurgery Wards and provides EMG and nerve conduction studies as well as formal sleep studies (3 cubicles on the Neurology Ward). The department also supports on-site video-telemetry (3 cubicles on the Neurology Ward) and invasive video-telemetry (I cubicle on the Neurosurgery Ward).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job plan is subject to re-negotiation and annual review with the Clinical Lead and Service Manager, any changes being made by agreement with the department.
The candidate would have opportunities to attend general neurology and specialty clinics based on interest and service requirements. The job plan will also have independent general neurology or epilepsy clinics based on candidate’s experience, with support from consultants as required.
If any candidate wants to have a focused experience in a specialist are of neurology, that could be facilitated balancing with acute neurology cover.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Years experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stefan Spinty
- Job title
- Neurology Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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