Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Consultant Neurologist to join our existing team of Consultants and Specialist Nurses to support the Neurology service provided across the West of Berkshire.

Please note the Simulation date is the 12th November 2025 and the Interview date is the 20th November 2025.

Main duties of the job

This is a part-time (5PA) post to enhance the care of patients with MS at the Royal Berkshire hospital. It involves provision of outpatient services for newly diagnosis patients, patients receiving disease-modifying therapies, and others requiring long-term supervision. The successful applicant will join a team comprising an existing full-time neurology consultant with a special interest in MS and three clinical nurse specialists. In addition to offering clinics, the appointee will participate in local and regional MDT clinical and neuro-radiology meetings, and will supervise and support the MS nursing team. The appointee will be expected to develop systems for the provision and monitoring of patients on DMTs, and to optimize all MS-related patient pathways for safety and efficiency. The appointee will be expected to work closely with the regional MS service based in Oxford, to develop appropriate pathways for the most complex patients, and to prepare for the introduction of new therapies region-wide if and when they become available.

The role also includes dedicated time for participation in clinical research. The appointee will be expected to establish the local clinical infrastructure required for recruitment of patients into commercial clinical trials of MS therapies, with the expectation that Reading patients will be routinely given the opportunity to take part in research.

Working for our organisation

The successful applicant will join a team of six consultant neurologists, based at the Royal Berkshire hospital (RBH) in Reading. The department also includes an associate specialist in neurology, a specialist registrar from the Oxford rotation, an F3 senior house officer, and IMT2 senior house officer (shared with ICU) and three GPwERs (two in headache and one in Parkinson’s disease). We have an experienced team of ten specialist nurses with excellent staff retention, led by a nurse consultant, who provide support patients with long-term conditions (epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, rare neurological disorders and botulinum toxic treatment for movement disorders and headache).  We adopt in a team-based approach to the management of complex neurological patients, exemplified by an hour-long case-review meeting every Thursday morning attended by the consultants and junior doctors, and a joint neuro-radiology meeting each Thursday evening. During these meetings, all inpatients under review are discussed and there is an opportunity to seek advice about, or share experience of interesting or difficult outpatient cases.