Consultant Neurology: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Job summary

The Trust is looking to recruit one substantive consultant neurologist to be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site to ensure that patients have access to high quality neurology services locally in a timely manner. This post will be based full time at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Queen Elizabeth site in Wooleich.

Applicants must be included on the GMC Specialist Register for Neurology or be within six months of obtaining their CCT at the date of interview. The successful applicant will provide a comprehensive high-quality inpatient and outpatient Neurology service.

Main duties of the job

This job plan is indicative of the expected clinic and ward commitments. It will be revised once suitable candidate is appointed, but the contribution of 3 OP clinics will not change. Full time appointees are expected to do four clinics a week (4 hourly clinic = 1 PA) and would support one of them being a specialty clinic if of relevance to the trust. Each clinic will have 0.5PAs of admin time allocated as per ABN guidance. Specialist clinics/services that would be of particular interest are: a. Movement disorders/ Parkinsons disease (including supervision of a PD nurse), Epilepsy clinic (including supervision of an epilepsy nurse) and neurorehabilitation (potentially including a monthly regional MDT; Monthly complex clinic and support to the spasticity service/ specialist neuro-physiotherapist). We expect that at least one of the clinics will have medical students (teaching clinic). Full time appointees will be expected to do up to 1.5 days of ward referrals a week and to cross-cover colleagues on leave They are expected to attend radiology/ rehab MDTs. We are a teaching site for Guys, Kings & St Thomas (GSTT) Medical school and appointees will be expected to teach medical students in teaching sessions and in clinics/ on ward rounds. The trust encourages research and will support relevant research activity.

Please see job description for further details

Person Specification

Consultant Grade

Essential

  • GMC Registration

Consultant Neurology

Essential

  • Neurology background

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).

Closing Date: 25 October 2026

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