Job summary
Rehabilitation Medicine at St George's Hospital, Tooting:
16 Level 1 rehabilitation beds, currently located here, with the plan to develop and additional 8 "Rapid Access Acute Rehabilitation" beds through this post. The Major Trauma Centre, and Neurosciences Units are based here, so the successful candidate should expect to work closely with our neurology, stroke, neurosurgery, neuropsychology and trauma colleagues.
The advertised post initial supported from funding via NHSE and will be closely linked to existing rehabilitation services. The successful candidate will be jointly responsible for a share of the inpatients treated St George's Hospital, shared with the current incumbent this would amount to an average of 8-10 inpatients per consultant. Outpatient clinics include neuro rehab, spasticity and amputation depending on experience and interest. There are non-resident on-call duties, supported by the on call junior doctors.
Main duties of the job
- Working with existing Consultants, therapist and nursing colleagues to provide a comprehensive Rehabilitation Medicine service St George's Hospital
- Responsibility for the continuing care and treatment of patients, and providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team
- Duties for inpatients include assessment of patients with complex rehabilitation needs, ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings; goal and discharge planning for individual patients; participation data collection likely to include UK-ROC data collection, family meetings, advice on rehabilitation (including sign posting of services, treatment and prognosis).
- Duties for outpatients include rehabilitation follow-up after discharge
- Provision of cover for consultant colleagues during reasonable periods of leave, including care of patients & supervision of junior doctors. (A minimum of 6 weeks' notice is to be given for all leave requests). Cross cover for clinics may be possible dependent on availability
- Liaison with other consultants in other departments including neurology, stroke, neurosurgery, trauma & orthopaedics, Neuropsychiatry and liaison with other AHPs within multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams (Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Psychology, Speech and Language therapy)
About us
Trust Vision & Values:
The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:
A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take
Job description
Job responsibilities
As part of the role, the consultant may be asked to provide some cover for Level 1 Specialist Rehabilitation Beds at St Georges Hospital. This would be to cover annual leave/ study leave. The consultant will provide reciprocal cover.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in Roles such as these
- Shared working in multidisciplinary settings
Desirable
- Exposure to NHSE working
- Experience in similar settings
Service and Work Experience
Essential
- Working for a service that needs wider clinical care
- Having exposure to clinical settings
Desirable
- Shared working in multidisciplinary settings
- Experience in similar settings
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St George's Hospital
London
SW17 0QT