Locum Consultant Neurologist (Interest in Movement Disorders) 6PA x 2
| Posting date: | 27 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, E9 6SR |
| Company: | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7943954/293-Consultant-402 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Neurology with a special interest in movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease. The postholder will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting innovative service models, achieving performance standards, and contributing to education and training.
This post will support the continued delivery and development of the neurology service, helping to maintain low waiting times while expanding specialist provision for patients with movement disorders. The role includes delivery of general neurology outpatient clinics alongside dedicated specialist clinics in complex Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders.
The postholder will contribute to the established movement disorders service, working closely with Care of the Elderly and multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated care for patients with complex needs.
In addition to outpatient activity, the role includes participation in ward referral reviews and the Advice and Refer service, supporting timely specialist input and effective patient pathways.
The appointee will have continuing clinical responsibility for patients under their care and will be expected to contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, teaching and supervision of junior staff, and service development initiatives within the Directorate.
Please refer to job description for full details.
Outpatient clinics
This postholder will share the neurology outpatient service seeing an appropriate proportion of new referrals and providing follow-up care for those patients who require further specialist supervision in the medium or longer term.
At HUH, the job plan will include 2.5 outpatient clinics per week. The contract will include appropriate time for supporting administration.
At HUH, the postholder would be supported and encouraged to develop and expand a subspecialty interest, possibly cognitive which will include participation in a specialist clinic, providing tertiary expertise for patients referred by neurological colleagues and of those patients on the RNRU. Clinics of this type are already in existence for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and other movement disorders and botulinum toxin therapy, as well as the specialist multidisciplinary admission assessment clinic in the RNRU with Drs Liu and Dr. Gorgorpatis.
Ward Referrals
This post involves conducting a consultant neurology ward referral round with the junior team once a week and attendance to the medical grand round. Further commitment will be attendance to a weekly X-ray/clinical meeting which will provide training for the SpR.
Admininstration
Administrative work will use existing shared office space and secretarial support. Access to the internet and email facilities are available.
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Neurology with a special interest in movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease. The postholder will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting innovative service models, achieving performance standards, and contributing to education and training.
This post will support the continued delivery and development of the neurology service, helping to maintain low waiting times while expanding specialist provision for patients with movement disorders. The role includes delivery of general neurology outpatient clinics alongside dedicated specialist clinics in complex Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders.
The postholder will contribute to the established movement disorders service, working closely with Care of the Elderly and multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated care for patients with complex needs.
In addition to outpatient activity, the role includes participation in ward referral reviews and the Advice and Refer service, supporting timely specialist input and effective patient pathways.
The appointee will have continuing clinical responsibility for patients under their care and will be expected to contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, teaching and supervision of junior staff, and service development initiatives within the Directorate.
Links with other departments
Stroke Service (24 Beds) HUH
The stroke service at HUH sees approximately 250 patients per year and has achieved designation status as a stroke unit by Healthcare for London. Patients are repatriated to the stroke unit from the HASU’s at the Royal London and University College London Hospitals. The service started to provide the rehabilitation phase of treatment for patients from the North Middlesex and Royal Free Hospital Acute Stroke Units during May 2012. There is a dedicated TIA service in operation. The service responds to a population base of 250,000 and is currently performing in the upper quartile of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit for clinical activity. The stroke population in Hackney is younger than the national average and reflects the ethnic diversity of Hackney. Early-supported discharge is provided through a dedicated ESSD team and longer-term community rehabilitation is provided by the Therapy at Home and Adult Community Rehabilitation teams.
Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) – (27 beds) HUH
The Homerton RNRU was established in 1963 andspecialisesin early inpatient rehabilitation for younger adult patients with severe complex disability after single incident neurological events other than complete spinal injury. The unit primarily serves patients who live, or have been admitted to hospital, in the north-eastern sector of Greater London and Essex. About 70 patients are admitted each year, 50% after vascular brain injury, 30% after head injury, and 20% after other forms of focal or diffuse brain damage resulting, for example, from certain infections or cardiorespiratory arrest. Patients are usually referred from acute beds in Neurosurgical or Neurology units or District General Hospitals. The unit is national guideline compliant and isrecognisedas one of the fewcentresin the United Kingdom providing such a service for people after brain injury; its comprehensive facilities are purpose built at ground floor level.
Radiology
The Trust offers imaging support in the form of CT, Doppler and MRI. Neuro-physiological Investigations are currently provided by ULCH for adults.
This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Neurology with a special interest in movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease. The postholder will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting innovative service models, achieving performance standards, and contributing to education and training.
This post will support the continued delivery and development of the neurology service, helping to maintain low waiting times while expanding specialist provision for patients with movement disorders. The role includes delivery of general neurology outpatient clinics alongside dedicated specialist clinics in complex Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders.
The postholder will contribute to the established movement disorders service, working closely with Care of the Elderly and multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated care for patients with complex needs.
In addition to outpatient activity, the role includes participation in ward referral reviews and the Advice and Refer service, supporting timely specialist input and effective patient pathways.
The appointee will have continuing clinical responsibility for patients under their care and will be expected to contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, teaching and supervision of junior staff, and service development initiatives within the Directorate.
Please refer to job description for full details.
Outpatient clinics
This postholder will share the neurology outpatient service seeing an appropriate proportion of new referrals and providing follow-up care for those patients who require further specialist supervision in the medium or longer term.
At HUH, the job plan will include 2.5 outpatient clinics per week. The contract will include appropriate time for supporting administration.
At HUH, the postholder would be supported and encouraged to develop and expand a subspecialty interest, possibly cognitive which will include participation in a specialist clinic, providing tertiary expertise for patients referred by neurological colleagues and of those patients on the RNRU. Clinics of this type are already in existence for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and other movement disorders and botulinum toxin therapy, as well as the specialist multidisciplinary admission assessment clinic in the RNRU with Drs Liu and Dr. Gorgorpatis.
Ward Referrals
This post involves conducting a consultant neurology ward referral round with the junior team once a week and attendance to the medical grand round. Further commitment will be attendance to a weekly X-ray/clinical meeting which will provide training for the SpR.
Admininstration
Administrative work will use existing shared office space and secretarial support. Access to the internet and email facilities are available.
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Neurology with a special interest in movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease. The postholder will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting innovative service models, achieving performance standards, and contributing to education and training.
This post will support the continued delivery and development of the neurology service, helping to maintain low waiting times while expanding specialist provision for patients with movement disorders. The role includes delivery of general neurology outpatient clinics alongside dedicated specialist clinics in complex Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders.
The postholder will contribute to the established movement disorders service, working closely with Care of the Elderly and multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated care for patients with complex needs.
In addition to outpatient activity, the role includes participation in ward referral reviews and the Advice and Refer service, supporting timely specialist input and effective patient pathways.
The appointee will have continuing clinical responsibility for patients under their care and will be expected to contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, teaching and supervision of junior staff, and service development initiatives within the Directorate.
Links with other departments
Stroke Service (24 Beds) HUH
The stroke service at HUH sees approximately 250 patients per year and has achieved designation status as a stroke unit by Healthcare for London. Patients are repatriated to the stroke unit from the HASU’s at the Royal London and University College London Hospitals. The service started to provide the rehabilitation phase of treatment for patients from the North Middlesex and Royal Free Hospital Acute Stroke Units during May 2012. There is a dedicated TIA service in operation. The service responds to a population base of 250,000 and is currently performing in the upper quartile of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit for clinical activity. The stroke population in Hackney is younger than the national average and reflects the ethnic diversity of Hackney. Early-supported discharge is provided through a dedicated ESSD team and longer-term community rehabilitation is provided by the Therapy at Home and Adult Community Rehabilitation teams.
Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) – (27 beds) HUH
The Homerton RNRU was established in 1963 andspecialisesin early inpatient rehabilitation for younger adult patients with severe complex disability after single incident neurological events other than complete spinal injury. The unit primarily serves patients who live, or have been admitted to hospital, in the north-eastern sector of Greater London and Essex. About 70 patients are admitted each year, 50% after vascular brain injury, 30% after head injury, and 20% after other forms of focal or diffuse brain damage resulting, for example, from certain infections or cardiorespiratory arrest. Patients are usually referred from acute beds in Neurosurgical or Neurology units or District General Hospitals. The unit is national guideline compliant and isrecognisedas one of the fewcentresin the United Kingdom providing such a service for people after brain injury; its comprehensive facilities are purpose built at ground floor level.
Radiology
The Trust offers imaging support in the form of CT, Doppler and MRI. Neuro-physiological Investigations are currently provided by ULCH for adults.
This advert closes on Monday 11 May 2026
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