Clinical Physiologist (Neurophysiology)

Role overview

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is hiring a Band 7 Clinical Physiologist to join its Clinical Neurophysiology team. The post suits someone who brings enthusiasm, commitment, and a strong interest in both routine and advanced neurophysiology, along with a desire to keep developing professionally and personally.

What the department does

The neurophysiology service performs a broad mix of routine and specialist tests and completes more than 10,000 procedures each year. The work includes inpatient and outpatient EEGs, portable recordings on wards and in intensive care, procedures carried out during specialist interventions, ambulatory EEG, and satellite services.

The department also provides evoked potentials, including visual evoked potentials, pattern electroretinogram, auditory evoked potentials, sensory evoked potentials, dermatomal evoked potentials, contact heat evoked potentials, and single or paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Other services include multimodality intraoperative monitoring during complex neurosurgical procedures, nerve conduction studies, assessment of nerve excitability, qualitative and quantitative electromyography, single fibre EMG, small fibre studies, movement disorder analysis, and EMG-guided botulinum toxin treatment.

About the trust

UCLH is one of the UK’s most complex NHS trusts, supporting a large and diverse patient population. It delivers academically led acute and specialist care to local communities, people from across the UK, and patients from overseas. Its aims are to provide outstanding patient care, excellent education, and research of international standing.

The trust provides first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: University College Hospital, including the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing; National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery; Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals; University College Hospital Grafton Way Building; Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine; University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre; The Hospital for Tropical Diseases; and University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street.

UCLH has a strong focus on the diagnosis and treatment of complex conditions, with specialist expertise in women’s health, cancer, infection, neurological disease, gastrointestinal disease, and oral disease. It also has major support services such as critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine, and pathology.

Sustainability commitment

The organisation is committed to sustainability and has pledged to become a carbon net zero health service. Its target is net zero for direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Contact for informal enquiries

For informal discussion or further information, contact Christopher Hemmings, Clinical Physiologist, at [email protected] or 020 344 84752.