Neurophysiology Consultant

Job summary

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Neurology department at East and North HertfordshireNHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership,innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practicesand to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that ourpatient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.We are looking to recruit to a substantive Consultant Neurophysiologist post based at HertfordCounty Hospital which comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs). There is no on-callcommitment.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work closely with our presentNeurology and Neurophysiology team as well as other departmentsincluding paediatrics, orthopaedics, plastic surgery andrheumatology. The appointee will undertake regular EMG clinics,EEG reporting and Evoked potential reporting at Hertford CountyHospital. There may be an occasional requirement to undertakeinpatient EMG at the Lister Hospital site.

Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care

Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning

Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service

Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity

Active participation in continuing medical education

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.