Job summary
- Main area
- Neurophysiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (some flexible working)
- Job ref
- 411-MED-24-6057710
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Childrens NHS Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 Dependent on experience
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Neurophysiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
We would like to invite applications for one full time, 10PA post of Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologists to join our busy team. We are based in Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
The successful applicant would join the existing 2 Consultant Neurophysiologists who, together, jointly cover 9 PA’s. Most of their work is via remote working
The post holder would provide a broad range of Clinical Neurophysiology investigations for children across Merseyside and surrounding areas. We provide a range of EEG activity, Video Telemetry both for diagnostic purpose and those on the epilepsy surgery pathway (NorCess) along with Ambulatory EEG with video. We also provide an EMG service.
One of the main duties of this role is to provide weekly EMG clinics and reporting of EEG, Video Telemetry and Ambulatory EEG(with video)
Also the successful candidate will be able to support the Neurophysiology services at Alder Hey for the Northern Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service (NorCESS). The successful candidate would be expected to provide high-quality Neurophysiology services as part of the nationally commissioned network between Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH). They will work alongside our existing Consultant Neurophysiologists and also closely across site with Professor Gonzalo Alarcon who is the Consultant Neurophysiologist leading the NorCess work at RMCH
Main duties of the job
- Carry out weekly EMG clinics including urgent EMG activity
- Reporting of EEG, Video Telemetry and Ambulatory EEG (with video). This will be shared with existing Cons. Neurophysiologists.
- Review and reporting of NorCESS video EEG telemetry
- Support/review/report of stereotactic EEG ( if experienced)
- Support/ review/report of intraoperative monitoring and mapping for epilepsy surgery (if experienced)
- Attend/present at regular NorCESS MDT
- Attend/present at national CESS MDT
- Development of NorCESS neurophysiology service along with the Neurophysiology team
- Provide multimodal Intraoperative monitoring procedures outside the epilepsy surgery service ( if the post holder has experience)
At Alder Hey we have three dedicated Video Telemetry beds (two for diagnostic/epilepsy surgery work up and one 256 VT system for stereo-tactic EEG.)
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust is located in the West Derby area of Liverpool,
We currently have more than 3,200 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
The Neurophysiology department provides a range of Neurophysiology tests for children across the North west and North Wales along with providing Neurophysiology input to the NorCESS service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Providing a broad range of Clinical Neurophysiology investigations for children across Merseyside and surrounding areas.
See attached job description
Person specification
Professional qualifications & experience
Essential criteria
- Has the recognised professional qualifications
- Substantive experience in working in Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology including EMG
- Substantial experience in video Telemetry and pre surgical evaluation for Epilepsy surgery
- Experience in Invasive monitoring with functional stimulation
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Intraoperative monitoring for tumour resection and Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR)
- management experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Teresa Preston
- Job title
- Neurophysiology department manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 252 4566
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