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Joint Appointment of Consultant Neurologist Joint Appointment of Consultant Neurologist Emergency Care and Integrated Care Division, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital – 8PA Regional Neurosciences Unit, Imperial College Hospitals, Charing Cross Hospital – 2PA JOB DESCRIPTION About our organisation Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have nearly 6,000 members of staff that care for nearly one million people locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics. We are one of the best performing FTs in London for A&E waiting times, and mortality rates are better than average. Since the Care Quality Commission last inspected our hospitals we have taken on responsibility for a range of new services. Our new services include: Cardiac catheter service and a paediatric assessment unit on the West Middlesex site Surgical assessment unit on the Chelsea site New sexual health clinic at 10 Hammersmith Broadway Virtual fracture clinics Learning disabilities passports Plans are in place for a £20 million expansion to critical care facilities and refurbishment of the children’s unit at West Middlesex, both in partnership with the Trust’s dedicated charity CW+. Our priorities 1. Deliver high-quality patient-centred care Patients, their friends, family and carers will be treated with unfailing kindness and respect by every member of staff in every department and their experience and quality of care will be second to none. 2. Be the employer of choice We will provide every member of staff with the support, information, facilities and environment they need to develop in their roles and careers. We will recruit and retain people we need to deliver high-quality services to our patients and other service users. 3. Deliver better care at lower cost We will look to continuously improve the quality of care and patient experience through the most efficient use of available resources. Our staff Our staff survey results show that our Trust continues to have high levels of job satisfaction. Striving to improve this even further remains our priority of being an employer of choice. This means not only attracting staff, but keeping them through investment in learning and development, career progression and attention to work/life balance. Consultant Neurologist July 2018 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2 Trust Values The Trust has launched its values to patients and members of the public to demonstrate the standard of care and experience they should expect from any of our services. These values form the mnemonic PROUD: Putting patients first Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff Open, welcoming and honest Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care Consultant Neurologist July 2018 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3 Job title Consultant Neurologist Band Medical & Dental Division Emergency Care and Integrated Care Division Responsible to Dr John Janssen Service Director – Neurology and Stroke Accountable to Dr Raffi Kaprielian Clinical Director Type of contract Permanent Hours per week 10 PAs Location 8PA at Chelsea and Westminster and 2 at Imperial – CXH Job Summary The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Consultant Neurologist. This post is a new post that will also take on some of the work of Dr Angus Kennedy, our senior neurologist, who is going part time. Applicants are invited to join a growing, dynamic and forward- looking department of neurology and stroke medicine. The successful candidate will join a close team based at the Chelsea site made up of five consultant neurologists, a stroke consultant (About to be advertised), and Dr Michael Pelly, who continues to contribute to the TIA service, at the Chelsea site. The wider department includes a further three consultant neurologists (with a fourth to be appointed shortly) and three consultant stroke physicians based at the West Middlesex site. The appointee will provide inpatient and outpatient services in busy, but well supported hospitals. The appointment will be 10PAs and will include 2 PAs at the Regional Neurosciences Unit at Charing Cross Hospital. There will be 3 general clinics at Chelsea & Westminster and a specialist clinic at Charing Cross in a subspecialty that is complementary to the needs of the services in both Trusts. The appointee will participate in the Regional neurology on call rota unless they wish to participate in the Regional HASU stroke rota instead. See page 11 for Job Plan SECTION 1 - DIRECTORATE SPECIFIC INFORMATION 1.1 Overview The Trust Board comprises an independent Chair, Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Executive Directors (Chief Executive, Deputy Chief Executive, Medical Director, Chief Operating Director Chief Nurse, Chief Financial Officer, Director of HR and OD), and eight Non-Executive Directors from outside the NHS. The Chief Executive of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust is Mrs Lesley Watts, and the Medical Director is Dr Zoe Penn. Consultant Neurologist July 2018 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4 The Trust Management structure consists of three Clinical Divisions each managed by a Divisional Director of Operations and a Divisional Medical Director. This post sits within the Division of Medicine The Medicine Directorate’s management team is: Divisional Medical Director – Dr. Dilys Lai Hospital Director – Mark Titcomb Divisional Operations Director- Mark Titcomb Clinical Director –Dr Raffi Kaprielian General Manager- Tom Cornwell Service Manager- Elaine Elliott Human Resources Business Partner – Toni Shepherd The day to day operational management is covered by the team. Individual consultants are also trainees’ managers and are encouraged to liaise with their managerial and clinical colleagues to resolve operational issues. 1.2.1 The Department of Neurology and Stroke At Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust the current consultant neurologists are: Job Role Consultant Site Dr John Janssen Service Director Neurology & Stroke Chelsea Dr Angus Kennedy Consultant Neurologist Chelsea Dr Nick Davies Consultant Neurologist Chelsea Dr Victoria Singh-Curry Consultant Neurologist Chelsea Dr Rebecca Redwood Consultant Neurologist Chelsea This Post Consultant Neurologist Chelsea Appointee to be confirmed Consultant Stroke Physician Chelsea Dr Ron Pearce Clinical Lead and Consultant West Middlesex Neurologist Dr Alidz Pambakian Consultant Neurologist West Middlesex Dr Chris Carswell Consultant Neurologist West Middlesex Appointee to be confirmed Consultant Neurologist West Middlesex Dr Rabeha Zammouri Neurology Associate Specialist West Middlesex Dr Ravneeta Singh Consultant Stroke Physician West Middlesex Dr John Platt Consultant Stroke Physician West Middlesex Dr Ambreen Ali-Sheikh Consultant Stroke Physician West Middlesex Consultant Neurologist July 2018 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 5 In addition to these posts the Chelsea site has 2 full-time Specialist Registrars Dr Katherine Slattery and Dr Aytakin Khalil 1 FY2 Dr Li Ling 1 FY1 Dr Charlotte Mildmay-White 1 Neurology Nurse Specialist – Omeada Samson 1 Neurology Pharmacist – Eshter Wong Neurophysiology daily service provided by consultants Dr Ian Mak, Dr Sheba Azam (Lead Clinician), and Dr Sutapa Biswas, with the full range of facilities including NCS/EMG, EP, and EEG Neuroradiology support in the Trust on four days of the week by Charing Cross neuroradiology consultants Drs Olga Kirmi, Fara Alobeidi, and Caroline Kachramanglou. Additionally there is an excellent general radiology department including interventional radiology e.g. RIG and image guided LP. For dedicated interventional neuroradiology we work closely with our colleagues at Charing Cross Hospital and our patients are treated there in a hub and spoke fashion. In addition the West Middlesex site has an Epilepsy Nurse clinic run by Mr Pierre Ramkoleea and outpatient neurophysiology. Consultant Neuroradiology support is anticipated to be in place at West Middlesex site later in 2018 also from Imperial College. At Chelsea and Westminster neurology has inpatient beds on Nell Gwynne Ward which is a combined neurology (4 beds) and stroke unit (20 beds), with only the occasional medical outlier. There is flexibility for beds according to specialty need and the beds for the ward are managed autonomously to help downstream patients from HASU at Charing Cross. There is an excellent Medical Day Unit (MDU) facility for rapid investigations, lumbar puncture, and patient review outside the clinic setting. The Gold Award winning daily TIA service is hosted on MDU. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has close links with the Royal Brompton Hospital, an internationally renowned tertiary care and research centre for cardiac and pulmonary diseases. Drs Janssen, Singh- Curry, and Redwood provide inpatient neurology consultations, and weekday (9-5) emergency cover. In addition Dr Janssen provides a weekly outpatient clinic and Dr Singh-Curry a monthly sarcoid clinic. A similar arrangement is currently being set up with the Royal Marsden Hospital. 1.2 Major Neurology Departmental
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