Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- YM72
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 259-MED01574RLH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/04/2025
Employer heading

Consultant Neurosurgeon with a special interest in Neurotrauma
YM72
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
This post has been funded to enhance the Trust's existing Neurotrauma service and development of a subspeciality interest is welcomed potentially to expand in peripheral nerve surgery, complex spine surgery, or neuromodulation.
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The appointee will participate in the general neurosurgery on call rota and neurotrauma consultant of the week rota. They will be encouraged to develop the service and will be supported in doing so.
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Fellowship training in an intended area of subspecialty interest is desired. An indicative job plan is included within the job specification.Ìý
Main duties of the job
The reformed health service requires that consultants become increasingly involved in the management and administration of resources in their departments. The successful appointee will need to demonstrate professional excellence and efficient delivery of care. He/she will need to agree levels of activity and throughput in the outpatient department with the General Manager and Clinical Lead. These activity levels will address the contracted number of episodes and reflect the provision of main theatre operating time, so that waiting lists are maintained acceptable levels. Activities will be reviewed and agreed annually as part of the Trust's job planning
process. The job plan will be reviewed additionally after the first six months in post, to ensure that it meets the needs of the Trust and that it provides adequate support following this appointment.
All new consultants in the department of neurosurgery are offered close support by colleagues in the first year following their appointment. The precise details of this will be agreed with – and modified to suit the needs of – the successful appointee.
Working for our organisation
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate, and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Barts Health supports The Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Personal and people development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of teamwork and working across multiple disciplines
- Evidence of a flexible approach to working across teams
- Values aligned to those of Barts Health Trust
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of taking part or leading service and departmental improvements
- Interest in research, with evidence of peer-reviewed publications in complex spine surgery
- RCS accredited (or equivalent) complex spine fellowship in an appropriate subspecialty of Neurotrauma, Peripheral Nerve surgery, or Spinal Surgery
- Evidence of significant involvement in departmental/service clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- Track record of team work and joint working within team, MDTs and across networks
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and a track record in the independent management of complex spine neurosurgery, as evidenced by logbook
- Experience and a track record of caring for spinal pathologies within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience in management of general adult neurosurgical emergencies
- Experience of providing emergency neurosurgical care for paediatric patients
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
- Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
- Experience managing patients with neurotrauma independently at senior level
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise
- On GMC Specialist Register in Neurosurgery via CCT / CESR(CP) or CCT / CESR(CP) due within six months of interview date Or equivalent qualification
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
- Prepared to work on-call 1/9
- Physically and mentally capable of performing the duties of the post with provision of any reasonable aids and adaptations
- Satisfactory Immigration Status
- Satisfactory Health Clearance Satisfactory
- Disclosure Check
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Prof Dimitrios Paraskevopoulos
- Job title
- Lead for Neurosurgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
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