King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 12,800 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Applications are invited for a Junior Clinical Fellow to join our team at Orpington Hospital, part of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

King’s is a regional Neurosciences Centre and a Major Trauma Centre.

This post will be based in Orpington Neurosciences Centre and will be required to provide cross cover between the 2b Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit, the Neuro-surgical Step-Down Unit and Frank Cooksey Rehabilitation Unit (1b). The new 2b Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit was recently opened in Orpington Hospital in July 2016. The key aim of Ontario 2b is to offer specialist active rehabilitation to patients with neurological needs, to assist them in achieving physical, cognitive and emotional wellbeing, facilitating family, vocational and community engagement. The ward currently has 20 inpatient beds, 14 beds are secured for 2b Neurological Care and 6 further beds for Neuro-surgical Step Down patients.

The Frank Cooksey Rehabilitation Unit provides specialist neurological rehabilitation in a 15 bedded unit. It was recently relocated to a dedicated fully refurbished ward in Orpington Hospital. In this unit, complex physical and cognitive rehabilitation is provided to patients who suffered a stroke, traumatic brain injury, polyneuropathy, myopathy, spinal cord injury, or relapse of progressive neurological disease.   Within this role, the successful applicant will work collaboratively as part of multi-disciplinary teams led by a team of three Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine and Clinical service Lead to support the day-to-day running of the Neurorehabilitation 2B and Step-Down unit and Frank Cooksey Rehabilitation Unit. The successful applicant will be required to attend and actively contribute to family meetings, complex patient discharge meetings, key-working duties and multidisciplinary team reviews. There are opportunities within this role to further develop clinical skills and to attend and review patients in a weekly MDT Rehabilitation Clinic Specialist Spasticity Clinic and Intrathecal Baclofen Clinic.   This post would be suitable for candidates who have completed their FY 1+2 (or equivalent), currently practicing at SHO level, and wish to gain specific experience and training in Neurology or Rehabilitation medicine.   Although this appointment is not accredited for training, the appointee will have the opportunity to participate in the educational and training programs at the Denmark Hill and/or PRUH sites. Appointees will have a named educational supervisor.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name Dr Eleonora Bradaschia Job title Locum Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine Email address e.bradaschia@nhs.net

Additional contact information Secretary Emma Boyle 01689866361