Locum Consultant Neurologist / Rehabilitation Medicine.

Job summary

The post holder will primarily be in the role of assessing new patients who have been referred for specialist neurorehabilitation under The Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Service. The post will include providing Neurorehabilitation input to the multidisciplinary teams at the Wolfson. The postholder will have outpatient follow up clinics which are usually carried out Face to Face and also remotely by telephone or videocall.

The Queen Mary's Hospital inpatient caseload comprises of patients who are admitted for high intensity rehabilitation (level 1 or level 2), who have complex needs. Patients admitted for rehabilitation will usually comprise those with neurological symptoms secondary to acquired brain injury (ABI) (including stroke, inflammation, and trauma).

The ward is split into 3 teams: Green team (neuropsychiatry led): Level 1 patients (8) presenting with ABI or FND, Yellow Team (neurology led): Level 1 patients (8) presenting with ABI, Blue team (neurorehabilitation led): Level 2 patients (10) presenting with ABI, spinal or peripheral neuropathies. Each team has a consultant lead and junior doctor; but a culture of flexibility and co-working is promoted.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also be doing spasticity clinics within a multidisciplinary team with an advanced clinical practitioner physiotherapist and assessment clinics for patients to be admitted for rehabilitation.

The post holder will have continuing responsibility for patients in their care on the ward. It is expected that this would be 4 patients, with the remaining 4 being covered by a neurology colleague. Flexibility and cross cover arrangements would be expected to allow safe and efficient care. The post holder will liaise with other relevant professionals within the multidisciplinary team and participate in planning the rehabilitation programme of patients.

The post holder will take an active part in the activities of the department, case conferences, team meetings, and to represent the medical component of the team. The neurorehabilitation care group meets monthly and includes audit and governance reporting. It would be expected that the post holder support the care group with this.

The post holder will collaborate where required with other services including community neurorehabilitation teams and Neurology teams at St George's Hospital. The post holder will provide direct clinical supervision to a junior clinical fellow allocated to the team.

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.