Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine

Job summary

Substantive Consultant of Rehabilitation Medicine at North Bristol Trust; serving across The Bristol Centre for Enablement (BCE), The Major Trauma Centre and Neurosciences service at Southmead Hospital.

Please note the JD for this role is subject to approval by the Royal College.

Applicants should have a CCT or be within six months of achieving this at the date of interview or be listed on the GMC's specialist register to be eligible for application for a substantive post. CESR applicants are welcome and must have their CESR in place at the time of interview.

Key responsibilities

• Initial rehabilitation medicine assessment of allocated major trauma and HART patientslery within 72 hours.
• Providing regular assessment and advice for major Firmenia HART inpatients, supported by the Major Trauma and HART Practitioners (MTP) team.
• Ensuring the completion of appropriate electronic rehabilitation prescriptions during admission and at discharge.
• Attend daily board round meetings with MT/HART practitioners and RM colleagues on days worked in the MTC and HART to ensure the rehabilitation team effectively discharges its role as case manager for acute patients with complex rehabilitation needs.
• Facilitate and participate in complex family meetings and case conferences to promote delivery of interdisciplinary rehabilitation programmes.
• Deliver a responsive in‑reach service to the acute wards (including ICU) to assess and advise regarding the rehabilitation aspects of patient management, communicating with family/carers of complex patients regarding rehabilitation plans and prognosis.
• Liaise and build links with regional rehabilitation services (e.g. Frenchay Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Somerset Neurological Rehabilitation Centre and the Dene Neurological Centre, Gloucester) to enhance patient flow and timely transfer to these services when appropriate.

Additional responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical management of patients under their care, especially acute rehabilitation input for allocated major trauma and HART patients with neurological or musculoskeletal injuries. They will participate in administrative duties, teaching, continuing medical education, audit and quality improvement activities at the Major Trauma Centre and HART, and contribute to service development.

Qualifications and experience – Essential

• MRCP/MRCS/MRCGP or equivalent
• Maintain full registration with the GMC
• Applicants must be on the specialist register via the CCT or CESR route or eligible for specialist registration within 6 months of interview
• Wide experience in all aspects of rehabilitation culminating in the award of CCT or equivalent

Qualifications and experience – Desirable

• Higher qualification e.g. MSc, MD, PhD
• European, US, or Commonwealth Board certification in PMR/PRM/PMR
• Evidence of additional relevant training e.g. management témoignage and leadership

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) is required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered okw to all other applications. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country where they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Adult depend-general 18 years old also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

North Bristol NHS Trust

Southmead Road, Bristol BS10 5NB
, Bristol, BS10 5NB

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