Trust Fellow in Paediatric Neurology (ST5+ equivalent)

Main area : Paediatric Neurology

Grade : ST5-ST8

Contract : Fixed term : 12 months (ASAP for 12 months)

Hours : Full time - 40 hours per week

Job ref : 317-TD-25-052

Employer : The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type : NHS

Site : Paediatric Neurology Specialty - RVI

Town : Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary : £61,825 - £70,425 per annum pro rata

Salary period : Yearly

Closing : 10 / 03 / 2025 23 : 59

Trust Fellow in Paediatric Neurology (ST5 equivalent)

Job overview

We're delighted to offer an exciting opportunity in Paediatric Neurology for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our team. Successful applicants will provide day-to-day clinical cover, helping maintain continuity for the inpatient service as well as working in outpatient clinics. They will work with registrars, including 'Grid' specialty trainees in Paediatric Neurology, and support the supervision of more junior staff. There are also opportunities for training in quality improvement and medical education work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Main duties of the job

The Paediatric Neurology service includes a large multidisciplinary team that provides a comprehensive range of specialist care for children and young people across the north of England. Newcastle is the regional centre for an area up to the Scottish border, as far south as North Yorkshire, and across to the west coast of Cumbria (a total population of ~ 500,000 children across ~16,000 km2). The team works with colleagues in smaller hospitals across the region, up to 150km away.

Outpatient work typically focuses on the needs of children with epilepsy and tone and seizure problems associated with cerebral palsy, as well as follow-up of children who have been admitted as inpatients with acute neurological illness. Inpatient admissions follow brain trauma, infection, inflammation, or metabolic disease, and for investigation of suspected neurological and neurogenetic conditions.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest, and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high-quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally, and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical, and neurological conditions, cancers, and genetic disorders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patient contacts each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit of providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, particularly from under-represented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In-hours clinical duties

In-hours duties (split with other registrars and under consultant supervision) include attendance at general and specialty neurology outpatient clinics; MDT meetings; care of neurology inpatients; neurology consults to other specialty patients, general paediatrics, neonatology, and intensive care; review of patients as day cases.

The post holders will be expected to undertake ward rounds and clinical reviews as required, always with the support of a Consultant. They will also need to support junior colleagues (F2, GPTVS, and Paeds ST1-3) with less experience in neurology.

Out of hours duties

This post does not contain any on-call commitment. Potential contribution to on-call rotas could be negotiated should the successful candidate wish.

Professional Development Opportunities

An active education programme runs with early morning teaching, including a radiology meeting and journal club, most days of the week, as well as lunchtime meetings and other opportunities. All fellows have an allocated educational supervisor. Study leave entitlement is equivalent to that of the specialist trainees and is granted by the trainee’s education supervisor. The successful applicant will be encouraged to develop clinical service guidelines, complete audits, and Quality Improvement Projects and to become involved in one of the many research projects run in the hospital.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full UK GMC registration with a license to practise at the time of application
• MBBS or equivalent
• MRCPCH in paediatrics or equivalent

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Maintaining Clinical Competence

Teaching

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues

Personal Attributes

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Salary : $61,825 - $70,425