Job summary
- Main area
- LSCIC
- Grade
- YC72
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Part time - 36 hours per week (9 PA's)
- Job ref
- 392-MS014-ConsultRehabMed
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Town
- Middlesex
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 +£2,162 LW per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
YC72
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
Job title:- Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
Location:- London Spinal Cord Injury Centre
Hours:- 9 PA’s
Duration:- Substantive
Main duties of the job
An opportunity to provide extended leave cover is available at The London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC) at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, which was established in 1981. It moved into purpose-built accommodation in 1984 and is one of only 11 in the UK designated to receive and treat spinal cord injured patients. The Centre currently has 33 beds for adults, children and young people. These beds include beds for first episode of rehabilitation and designated beds for planned short term rehabilitation admissions or for surgical management of pressure ulcers. Patients may also be admitted to the Children’s and Young Person’s unit.
The consultant staff comprises of 4 other consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine (Dr Jan Gawronski, Mr Manish Desai, Dr Alex Lowe, Dr Verity Thakur) with input from orthopaedic/spinal surgeons, neurosurgeons, psychiatry, urologists, microbiology, anaesthetics, ITU medicine with respiratory/ ventilatory support and plastic surgery. The inpatient and outpatient clinical workload is shared equally between the consultants: annually approximately 100 new referrals are admitted for rehabilitation and approximately 3000 outpatients attend the centre.
Working for our organisation
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RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
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The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust aims to be a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The appointee will:
- Provide in-patient and out-patient medical and rehabilitation care to patients referred to the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC), alongside the present consultants in rehabilitation medicine
- Work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver a comprehensive rehabilitation and reintegration package
- Be responsible for on-going review of patients discharged from the unit to provide continuing medical support and promote health and social reintegration
- Have the opportunity to develop a special clinical interest related to the biopsychosocial management of spinal cord injury
- Contribute to research in the field of spinal cord injury
- Take part in teaching & research activities in the centre & hospital & contribute to research projects within the centre
- Actively participate in the centre & hospital clinical audit
- Participate in a range of CPD activities appropriate for a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine practising within a Spinal Cord Injury Centre
- Undertake annual appraisal and 5 yearly revalidation as per GMC requirements
- Contribute to the policies and the administrative development of the unit and the hospital as a whole
- Provide 1 week in 4 offsite on-call for LSCIC patients
For further details/ informal visits please contact Michelle Conlon Centre Manager on [email protected] or Alex Lowe [email protected]
Person specification
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- • Patients first always • Excellence in all we do • Trust, honesty and respect for each other • Equality for all
Education, qualification and training
Essential criteria
- MRCP or MRCS
- Full GMC registration
- Entry on the GMC specialist register with CCT or equivalent (proposed CCT/CESR date must be within 6 months of interview)
- Management experience - e.g. rota/leave coordinator
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of undertaking research activities
- At least 6 months experience working in a spinal cord injury centre
- Experience in a wide range of teaching methods, including the organisation and delivery of teaching programmes.
Quality improvement (QI)
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of Quality Improvement (QI) methodology / audit / service improvement work
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent in all aspects of skills appropriate to the role
- Computer literacy/IT skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to effectively supervise junior medical staff
- Track record of establishing and maintaining good working relationships with patients, carers and multidisciplinary colleagues
- Understanding of wellbeing
Desirable criteria
- Experience in effectively delivering training / teaching nursing and medical staff
- Experience in conflict management and able to motivate colleagues (medical and non-medical)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of clinical governance
- Evidence of understanding the importance of GMC good medical practice and appraisal and revalidation.
Desirable criteria
- Consultant role in ensuring patient safety
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Understands the principles of patient confidentiality and data protection Accountability – Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
- Openness – Shares information and good practice appropriately
- Mutual respect – Treats others with courtesy and respect at all times
- Commitment to own continued professional development and that of others
- Highly organised, self –motivated, track record of achievement
- Understanding and involvement in service development
- Demonstrable commitment to anti-discriminatory and inclusive behaviours and practices
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Conlon
- Job title
- LSCIC Centre Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02089095606
- Additional information
Alex Lowe
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