Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant

In addition to inpatient rehabilitation, the service also provides Rehabilitation Medicine outpatient clinics, including a specialist spasticity service. The clinics are based at St Marys health care campus, Portsea Island. The service works in partnership with Steepers to provide consultant sessions at the dedicated Murrison accredited regional prosthetic services based at Portsmouth Enablement Centre, St Marys health care campus, Portsea Island.

The appointee will work closely with the other 2 Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine in providing comprehensive Rehabilitation Medicine services in Portsmouth serving the regional footprint as well as improving, strengthening and developing specialist services. The post offers opportunities to include elements of acute outreach, inpatient and outpatient Neurorehabilitation, paediatric to adult transition clinics and Prosthetic Rehabilitation services subject to interests and negotiation. Opportunities also exist to contribute to Rehabilitation ongoing and future service development and governance; Educational Supervision; and Departmental and Care Group leadership roles. The service is part of the Wessex Trauma Network and there are additional opportunities to be involved with this as well as opportunities for the appointee to develop a research portfolio if desired, or to collaborate academically with the University of Portsmouth and Kings College in delivering the newly established Medical Degree Programme.

Post holders are actively encouraged to participate in relevant service improvement projects, audits, research and represent the Rehabilitation Medicine service at Royal College level and/or nationally. Job plans are reviewed annually, and the post holder would need to be flexible, as changes to working patterns may occur in future years.

This post would be equally suited to an experienced consultant as well as a consultant early in their career. Mentorship is available as standard through the trust mentorship scheme and given the size of the consultant body peer support is readily available.

Key Responsibilities will include some of the following:

Prehabilitation Outreach services Preadmission patient reviews and providing medical support and leadership to the Acute Neuro Team.

Inpatient Rehabilitation Ward Care, Shared with another consultant colleague at Queen Alexandra Hospital site, including MDT meetings, direct ward care as well as supporting administrative duties to manage inpatient pathways.

Specialist Rehabilitation Medicine Outpatient Clinic. Clinic including new and follow up patients within a departmental agreed template or similar.

Prosthetic Rehabilitation Clinic MDT clinic including pre-amputation, primary amputation and follow up patients within a departmental agreed template at the Portsmouth Enablement Centre.

Supporting professional activities In line with departmental, personal and trust objectives. Agreed through job-planning process. May include clinical and educational supervision, service development, involvement with data validation for UKROC submission, involvement with Wessex Trauma Network, research and wider educational roles.

Supporting resources: Office space and secretarial support are provided for this post as well as necessary IT system access. Mentorship available as standard through trust mentorship scheme. Study leave allocation through local policy.

Revalidation The trust and service are committed to support individual revalidation requirements. SPA is allocated to support this. There is a robust trust appraisal system with designated local lead for revalidation and appraisal. There is bespoke software to support along with support for revalidation activities such as patient and colleague feedback.

There is no on-call responsibility, or weekend working, commitment with this post. Out of hours inpatients are covered by the duty on-call physician.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

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Experience

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