Consultant Neurologist – with interest in MND
The closing date is 27 May 2026
We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team. This substantive, full‑time post is ideal for someone at the start or mid-point of their consultant career. Roughly half the clinical work will be general neurology, contributing to the acute service and outpatients service, and half to the subspecialty motor neurone disease service. We are already a research active centre, with commercial and investigator‑led trials. Funding has been secured for one day a week through the Doddy Weir Foundation for the first three years to facilitate the successful candidate in developing and contributing to clinical trials and academic research activity, which will hopefully be self‑funding from that point on. Should this not be the case, we guarantee the option of a full‑time NHS clinical job. While advertised as full‑time, we would be happy to consider less than full‑time working or a compressed job plan.
Main duties of the job
This is a full‑time locum post based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. Clinical work will be roughly 50/50 general neurology/motor neuron disease. Motor neuron disease clinics are based nearby the Campus for Aging and Vitality.
The motor neurone disease team currently serves a patient population of 160‑180. The medical team is supported by a nurse specialist, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and dedicated admin support. This service has been a single‑handed practice to date, but we are moving towards involvement of a larger local and regional team.
- Provide a specialist motor neurone disease service: outpatient clinics and MDT, local and regional expert advice, develop leadership and networking skills to provide/support clinical leadership for the service in the future, continue to develop and support national MND network and centre profile.
- Provide an attending acute neurology service (typically 4 weeks a year).
- Contribute to on‑call out of hours and weekend service (4 weeks a year).
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC Registration.
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
- MD, PhD or equivalent in relevant area.
Clinical Experience
- Training and experience in all aspects of Neurology.
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion for elective outpatient general neurology.
- Ability to manage independently the acute neurology service and hospital liaison service at a tertiary centre.
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion in motor neurone disease and related conditions.
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
- Advanced experience in clinical MND service as subspecialty.
- Evidence of managing independent clinical practice at consultant level.
Management and Administration Experience
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
- Understanding of Clinical Governance.
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
- Evidence of leadership / project management.
- Evidence of having implemented change.
Teaching
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
Research
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature.
- Publications in the last five years.
- Evidence of participation as investigator in academic or commercial clinical trials.
- Design or leadership of a clinical trial.
- GCP training.
- Evidence in attracting grant funding.
Audit
- Evidence of participation in audit.
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
- Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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