Pain Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is a busy Specialised Pain service which has a fully integrated multidisciplinary service which specializes in complex adult patient pain management both for in patients and outpatients within both primary and secondary care.

We have greater than 2000 new patients referred per year and deliver a wide range of Multidisciplinary therapies for musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain.

We are the only UK approved Centre for the investigation and diagnosis of neuropathic pain by QST and have an active research unit here under the leadership of Professor Andrew Rice.

We are a truly integrated multidisciplinary pain service with 5 ESP's, 5 psychologists, 6 specialist nurses, a pharmacist, and Advanced pain trainees.

We are also involved with education of anaesthetic trainees at intermediate and Higher level as well as medical students.

We offer neuromoduation therapies including spinal cord stimulator therapy.

We have established a clinically networked pain centre incorporating the Joint site at the Marsden Hospital and the Brompton Hospital.

In addition to this we have established Spinal pathways across the community services and Imperial Hospitals NHS trust.

We have expertise in the management of complex patients offer a wide range of standard and highly specialized treatments for neuropathic pain.

We have also provided specialised pain services for military Veterans.

Please note the job description is pending Royal College approval

The successful post holder will build upon the established and nationally recognised specialty services at the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust.

The post will focus on multidisciplinary delivery of care with a focus on interventional pain management.

There is an expectation that the complex pain patient group management will be further developed involving better education, management of patients with long term pain conditions.

Where appropriate services will be delivered according to best practice guidelines as outlined by NICE, the British Pain society or IASP amongst other groups.

Should have additional skill sets e.g. able to undertake QST diagnostics (appropriately trained)

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate.

We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

The successful post holder will build upon the established and nationally recognised specialty services at the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust.

The post will focus on multidisciplinary delivery of care with a focus on interventional pain management.

There is an expectation that the complex pain patient group management will be further developed involving better education, management of patients with long term pain conditions.

Where appropriate services will be delivered according to best practice guidelines as outlined by NICE, the British Pain society or IASP amongst other groups.

Should have additional skill sets e.g. able to undertake QST diagnostics (appropriately trained)

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information