Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Cluster 2 comprises of 4 groups. Group 1 – Care of Elderly & Frailty and Therapies; Group 2 - Neurology, Diabetes and Endocrinology; Group 3 – Respiratory; Group 4 – Cardiology. 

hysiology Department 

The neurology department provides general neurological care to Kingston and the surrounding area.  The mainstay of our work is out-patient clinics in general neurology, as well as specialist clinics in movement disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis (MS), headache and functional neurological disorders, and nurse-led clinics in MS, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.  We offer day unit treatments for MS (currently Natalizumab).  We also provide a ward liaison service (in-reach) for in-patients.  Elective lumbar punctures are performed on the neurology day unit at St George’s Hospital.

The neurophysiology service was established in 2016.  We offer EMG/nerve conduction studies including single fibre EMG, SSEPs and EEG and VEPs.  We have access to CT and MRI scans, with visiting neuroradiologists from St George’s contributing to reporting.  DaTscans are offered by the nuclear medicine department.

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/OUTCOMES: 

Weekly commitment:

1.     Two movement disorders clinics. 1 PA per clinic.  Clinics have patient bookings for 3.5 hours.  Clinic template for general neurology is 30 minutes for a new patient and 15 minutes for a follow-up; clinic template for movement disorders can be discussed.  The balance between new and follow-up patients will fluctuate over time but the neurology department aims to achieve a new to follow-up ratio of 1 to 1.5 or less.

2.     0.5 PA DCC per clinic for dictation, reviewing results, unscheduled patient contact, calls to GPs, neuro-radiology meeting and other clinical administration.     

 3.     0.25 PA DCC for in-reach ward cover – covering one Friday afternoon every four weeks.

 4.     1.0 SPA time which may be extended to 1.5 SPA if additional responsibilities are taken on.

 5.     The Trust supports the requirements of CPD as recommended by the RCP and is committed to providing time and support for this. Study leave and financial support are available (currently £700 per year).

 6.     The postholder will be expected to take part in local and appropriate national audits. The Trust runs regular audit presentations and an annual ‘audit day’ where audits can be submitted for awards.

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