Barts Health NHS Trust

Consultant Neurologist

The closing date is 11 July 2025

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Consultant Neurologist to join our dynamic team at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust - one of the largest and most ambitious healthcare organisations in the country. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop the Rapid Access Acute Rehabilitation (RAAR) service, providing early neurorehabilitation to patients with complex neurological and trauma-related conditions. Alongside your leadership of the RAAR unit, you will contribute to our wider neurology service through outpatient clinics, acute neurology liaison and ward rounds, working collaboratively across a multidisciplinary team.You will join a supportive and forward-thinking neurology department with access to a dedicated clinical research unit, excellent secretarial support, and a strong culture of teaching and innovation. We are proud to serve a diverse and vibrant East London population and offer unrivalled opportunities for professional development, research collaboration through UCLPartners, and career progression across our network. Whether you are an established consultant or stepping into your first substantive post, we will support your growth with tailored mentoring and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

o To share responsibility with all consultant colleagues for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients, providing support to colleagues when required.

o To have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers' contracts.

o To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies.

o To maintain and promote team and multi-disciplinary work with the specialties working closely and regularly with Neurology.

o To encourage and foster clinical governance at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine.

o To give advice, support and training to junior medical staff, and medical students.

o Responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge including administrative duties associated with patient care.

o Leadership and proper functioning of the services in his/her charge in line with agreed policies of the Trust.

o Participation in quality and safety activities, including clinical audit.

o To maintain own professional standards in keeping up to date with latest developments, including maintaining license to practice and revalidation, access to continued professional development activities and adding value to the Department.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Date posted

20 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a session per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

259-MED7294958SBH

Job locations

The Royal London

White chapel Road

LONDON

E1 1BB

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for the best talent to lead our ambitious new healthcare organisation. In return, the Barts Health will provide unsurpassed professional development opportunities, enabling investment in a range of new initiatives that would mean:

doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway;

there would be greater opportunity for career progression we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion;

becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world who can share their knowledge and experience;

success breeds success. An organisation that is recognised as a world-leader will find it easier to recruit more staff, meaning we can work to reduce the number of persistent vacancies;

Job description

Job responsibilities

doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway;

there would be greater opportunity for career progression we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion;

becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world who can share their knowledge and experience;

success breeds success. An organisation that is recognised as a world-leader will find it easier to recruit more staff, meaning we can work to reduce the number of persistent vacancies;

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS/MB ChB or equivalent

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS/MB ChB or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

The Royal London

White chapel Road

LONDON

E1 1BB

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

The Royal London

White chapel Road

LONDON

E1 1BB

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)