Job Description

Company Description

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Job Description

Fixed term until February 2027 - MT04

The Rehabilitation Medicine service provides inpatient specialist rehabilitation from the Lotus Rehabilitation Centre and works closely with acute specialties across Queen Alexandra Hospital and with the wider Wessex Trauma Network, supporting patients through transition from acute care into rehabilitation and onward into community services.

Patients admitted to the Rehabilitation Medicine beds may have complex needs following acquired brain injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage, spinal or peripheral neurological disease, major trauma, prolonged critical illness, amputation or other causes of significant functional loss. The post holder will work closely with medical, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology, dietetics and other colleagues to support coordinated, goal-focused rehabilitation.

The Lotus Rehabilitation Centre is a modern 26-bed rehabilitation facility, comprising 13 beds for UKROC Rehabilitation Medicine and 13 beds for Stroke Rehabilitation. For UKROC rehabilitation, the unit is classified as level 2a, being the only local unit able to accept complex rehabilitation patients referred from hospitals throughout Hampshire. The unit includes two rehabilitation gyms, patient social space, meeting facilities and access to outdoor rehabilitation and garden areas.

This post offers an opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated doctor to gain experience in specialist Rehabilitation Medicine within the Lotus Rehabilitation Centre at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The post holder will work as part of a comprehensive multidisciplinary team caring for adults with complex neurological, medical and rehabilitation needs, under the supervision of the Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine.

The post holder will work primarily with the Rehabilitation Medicine patients, while also providing senior medical support and guidance to junior doctors across the wider 26-bed unit, including the Stroke Rehabilitation beds, according to clinical need.

The post is designed to provide broad exposure to the assessment and management of complex disability following neurological injury or illness, major trauma and other disabling conditions. Previous Rehabilitation Medicine experience is desirable but not essential. Applicants with a sound grounding in acute/general medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, orthopaedics, emergency medicine or related specialties would be well placed to develop within the role.

The successful applicant will be encouraged to participate in continuing professional development such as teaching sessions, quality improvement, audit, and clinical governance. The role will provide experience in the senior medical coordination of a specialist inpatient rehabilitation service, including supporting junior doctors, multidisciplinary working, family communication and escalation of complex clinical issues to the consultant team.

Qualifications

Qualifications and registration

Essential Desirable

• Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC.
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Evidence of completion of Foundation Year 2 competencies or equivalent.
• Full right to work in the UK • MRCP, MRCS, MRCGP or other relevant postgraduate qualification.

Clinical and professional skills/experience

Essential Desirable

• Broad postgraduate clinical experience relevant to the care of medically complex adults.
• Ability to independently assess and manage common acute medical problems and recognise when specialist assistance is required.
• Evidence of safe, evidence-based clinical practice.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Good organisational and time-management skills.
• Ability to take appropriate responsibility, make decisions within competence and escalate appropriately.
• Flexibility and ability to respond constructively to changing clinical circumstances.
• Commitment to patient-centred, compassionate care.
• Understand and manage personal workload
• Experience in Rehabilitation Medicine or neurorehabilitation.
• Experience in acute/general medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, orthopaedics or emergency medicine.
• Experience of managing patients with complex disability.
• Previous experience in a level 1/2a Specialist rehabilitation unit
• Experience of supervising, supporting or guiding junior doctors.
• Experience of complex discharge planning or family meetings.
• Skills to interpret relevant imaging such as CT/MRI/CTA

Other

Essential Desirable

• Appropriate IT skills for clinical practice.
• Ability to communicate clearly and intelligibly in written and spoken English.
• Evidence of honesty, integrity, reliability and professional behaviour.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and safeguarding.
• Willingness to participate in teaching, audit and quality improvement.
• Previous audit or quality improvement project.
• Teaching or presentation experience.
• Research, publication or service-development experience.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026