Locum Consultant Surgical Liaison Physician

The post is based at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. This is a locum maternity cover post from Jan-August 2025. The post is suitable for any consultant physician with a special interest in surgical liaison or perioperative care., The post-holder will sit within a well-established team of surgical liaison physicians, who currently provide embedded medical care for orthopaedic, vascular, general surgery, major trauma, and acute neurosurgery patients. It will focus on providing optimum medical co-management for acute cranial and spinal neurosurgical patients within ICHT, throughout the patient pathway. In addition, it involves facilitating and supervising the commencement of rehabilitation in the acute and subacute setting.

The role will involve providing high quality, coordinated, patient centred medical care for individuals of all ages diagnosed with acquired brain and spinal cord (traumatic and non traumatic) pathologies, including those with additional needs (eg. mental health, polytrauma). The postholder shares cross cover with the major trauma surgical liaison consultant when on leave or on acute medical rotation.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.