Locum Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
| Posting date: | 04 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-1075 |
Summary
Duties of the Post The post-holder will be based at GNCH and assume the duties of a Locum Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, managing the inpatient and outpatient care of children with neurological problems, providing clinical opinion and support to paediatric intensive care at GNCH and FRH, General Paediatrics and other paediatric specialties at GNCH, RVI (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and Freeman Hospital. The appointee will be expected to liaise with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) individually and on a collective basis at formal meetings, such as complex patient case discussions held periodically on PICU and discharge planning meetings for inpatients. The post-holder will also be expected to take a full and active role in departmental and directorate level initiatives on student and post-graduate (trainee) education, supervision, audit and quality improvement, as well as administrative tasks to support the department. Each paediatric neurology consultant contributes to the outreach programme and the appointee will also take on responsibility for specified outreach clinics within the region. Appropriate secretarial support will be provided. Personal office and computer facilities will be provided in the Paediatric Neurology department. On-call duties The Paediatric Neurology team has recently adopted a new on-call system with hot and cold weeks. A hot week involves being consultant of the week on-call, which currently occurs at 1 in 4.5 weeks, 9am to 5pm on weekdays and 9am to 1pm on weekends. This may change following expansion of the team. Not on-call duties During the cold weeks when not on-call, Paediatric Neurology consultants hold in-reach and out-reach clinics, and participate in teaching, trainee supervision, clinical governance and service development activities within the Paediatric Neurology department. Leave cover for the appointee will be provided by Paediatric Neurology colleagues and it is expected that the post-holder will share the cover of his/her colleagues when they are on leave. Proposed job plan Precise details of responsibilities, sessional commitments and job plan will be based on the needs of the service and interests of the successful applicant. A proposed job plan can be found in Section G and it is possible that mutually agreed changes may be made after discussion. The post will attract 10 programmed activities. This is split as 8.5 for Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 1.5 for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA). This working pattern will be reviewed once the post holder is in place. An annual appraisal and job planning will be mandatory as per current Trust policy. The appraisal will be undertaken by a trained appraiser approved by the Clinical Director in Childrens Services. The key issues from the appraisal will be relayed initially to the Clinical Director of Childrens Services and then to the Medical Director. If a job plan is unable to be agreed this will be referred to the Medical Director for arbitration. Teaching, research and audit The appointee will be expected to contribute to undergraduate teaching, core and specialty paediatric training. The appointees help and involvement in current research within Paediatric Neurology will be welcomed and the development and extension of his / her own research fields will be encouraged. CPD The appointee will take part in the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health CPD programme. The Trust supports such programmes and provides appropriate amounts of study leave and expenses to carry them out.