Consultant Neurologist - Keighley, United Kingdom - Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

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Keighley, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post will be based at Airedale General Hospital.

To support delivery of acute and general neurology inpatient and outpatient work in the Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and East Lancashire area.

You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold License to Practice and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.

The neurology Consultants work closely with the neurology specialist nurses who are both community and hospital based.

The team work closely with the neurophysiology department and also with Leeds regional neurology centre, having regular MDT meetings.

With access to radiology, pathology, neurophysiology diagnostic testing, the team provide a truly comprehensive service to our inpatients and outpatients.

The main duties of the post will be:

to provide, in collaboration with his/her medical, scientific and technical colleagues, a timely, accurate, reliable, accessible and comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic service in neurology, with the opportunity to develop specialist clinical interests

- to provide advice and support to clinical colleagues in primary and secondary care
- to participate in multidisciplinary clinical care, attend multidisciplinary team meetings and practise according to agreed national and local treatment guidelines
- to demonstrate enthusiasm, flexibility and co-operation in providing an integrated service with colleagues in Bradford Foundation Hospitals Teaching NHS Trust as part of the Act as One partnership
- to provide cross cover for his/her Consultant colleague for routine duties during periods of annual and study leave
- to share cross cover of routine duties for the Specialty Doctor's annual and study leave with his/her Consultant colleagues
- to participate in the effective running of the Department, contributing to an equitable share of workload and facilities, the efficient and appropriate use of staff and resources and the development of the clinical and laboratory service in support of changing needs of clinical users and within the Trust
- to provide continuing responsibility for patients under his/her care, with clear delegation of this responsibility during periods of leave

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust was authorised as a Foundation Trust in June 2010. It is an award winning Trust, with over 3000 colleagues and an income of over £200m.

It has won the coveted CHKS Patient Safety Award and been in the top 40 hospitals for the last six years.

Airedale is a high performing Trust providing quality, personalised, acute, elective and specialist care services for local people in an area extending from the fringes of north Bradford to parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and in to East Lancashire.

The Trust serves a population of over 200,000 from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire.

For full details of the advert please see the full job description and person specification attached.