Specialist Medicine
Consultant
£105,504 - £139,882 Per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Neurologist Consultant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the
Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
This post represents an exciting opportunity for an individual to join the neurology team and help develop it further. The Neurology Department is part of the Frailty, Neurology & Rheumatology Care Group within the Emergency & Medicine Division.
The Neurology Department at Medway NHS Foundation Trust seeks to recruit a substantive Consultant Neurologist. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to help develop our service. We can offer you a chance to develop and further your career. Sub-speciality interest in Movement Disorders or Headache would be desirable. You will be joining a Team of three Consultant Neurologists, two Parkinson’s disease Nurse Specialists and one Multiple Sclerosis Nurse Specialist delivering both inpatient (ward referrals) and outpatient service, including Multiple Sclerosis and Epilepsy specialist clinics. The Neurology Department is based at Medway Maritime Hospital. We collaborate closely with the Tertiary service team at King’s College Hospital. The post holder is expected to participate to Neuro-Radiology MDTs and Academic Meeting once a week.
Our consultants maintain their CME by attending meetings at KCH, principally on a Friday. The existing neurologists will rotate their CME sessions to ensure that there is an opportunity to attend KCH on a Friday and to ensure there is adequate cover on Fridays at MMH.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
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 which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dana Chirosca-Vasileiou Job title: Neurology Clinical Lead Email address:
[email protected]
