Neurology Clinical Fellow

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

The Neurology Service ise seekig three Clinical Fellows to join the service.

The Clinical Fellow Neurology positions would be ideal for motivated, enthusiastic candidates wanting to gain experience in Sub-specialty Neurology in a regional neuroscience centre.

The Neurology Department provides comprehensive adult neurological care for both emergency and elective work. This includes an inpatient Neurology ward (Charing Cross), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), a planned Neurological Treatment Unit (NTU), an Acute Neurology service, a wide range of sub-speciality outpatient clinics and a number of Multi-disciplinary team meetings.

This a large department with over 40 Consultant Neurologists linked to Imperial (based at Charing Cross, St. Mary’s or Hammersmith Hospitals), many with clinical duties at allied District General Hospitals and/or research commitments within academic departments at Imperial College.

The Neurology department is complemented by the Hyperacute Stroke Unit, Neurosurgery Unit, Neuroradiology Department (with access to CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and interventional neuroradiology) and Neurophysiology Department..

The postholder will be expected to participate in the oncall rota

Main duties of the job

The post will be full time for twelve months and applications from both pre and post CCT applicants will be considered. Candidates would ideally have a subspecialist interest in one of the following subspecialties: neuroinflammatory disorders, epilepsy, movement disorders or disorders of cognition. As Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has Services across multiple sites, the post-holders may be required to work at a differing sites on certain days of the week. The post-holders will be expected to:

• Contribute to the care of neurology inpatients, and the acute neurology liaison service.
• Participate in the on-call rota, which includes neurology and resident stroke thrombolysis/thrombectomy duties.
• Attend/deliver sub-specialty outpatient clinics.
• Attend subspecialty multidisciplinary team meetings and neuroradiology meetings.
• Assist with triaging of referrals into subspecialty clinics.
• Attend the weekly clinical and academic meetings.
• Participate in audit, quality improvement projects and clinical research where applicable.
• Involvement in teaching of resident doctors and medical students.

Working for our organisation

You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post would be ideal for a motivated, enthusiastic candidate wanting to gain experience within Neurology

o To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.

o To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities.

o To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

o Maintain current knowledge of Neurology, intervention and related areas appropriate to performing these duties.

o To maintain and participate in a recognised programme of continued medical education and professional development

The postholder will be required to work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

o Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.

o Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates

o Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Person specification

Qualifications

• • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Appropriate Royal College Membership (MRCP) or equivalent

• An appropriate higher degree (e.g. MD or PhD)

Eligibility

• • Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• Eligibility to work in the UK

• Inclusion on the specialist register for neurology GMC

Clinical Experience

• • Evidence of experience in a range of acute medical specialties
• • Neurology SpR level experience
• • Venepuncture, IV lines
• • Knowledge of the NHS models of Acute Neurology and SDEC

• Epilepsy experience

Language Skills

• Fluent English with evidence provided where necessary

Clinical Skills

• • Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
• • Awareness of the basics of managing neurological disease
• • Able to demonstrate proficiency in a range of medical procedures as an indication of manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination
• Evidence of competence in management of medical emergencies and in-patients through continuous work-based assessments, portfolio evidence, including log book documentation if applicable
• • Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate
• Demonstrate current ALS certification or equivalent

• Evidence of training/competency
• Ability to function as a competent independent neurologist
• Knowledge of patient management systems like Cerner
• Clinical Audit and/or Quality Improvement