• Job Description

  Req#: B9832-MD-2025-346?language=en&page=877&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Livewell Southwest is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine to lead and develop our Major Trauma Rehabilitation Service.

  This is a newly developed post designed to strengthen the rehabilitation pathway for patients recovering from major trauma. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across acute and community settings, working closely with the Major Trauma Centre and regional rehabilitation networks.

  About the Role:

  • Provide specialist rehabilitation input for patients with complex trauma-related needs
  • Lead multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and contribute to service development
  • Work collaboratively with acute care teams, community services, and regional partners
  • Support the delivery of personalised rehabilitation plans and continuity of care
  • Cross covering with the amputees rehabilitation service
  • Baclofen pump refill service lead

  What We Offer:

  • A supportive and innovative working environment
  • Opportunities to shape and expand a growing service
  • A strong MDT including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and case managers
  • Access to CPD, research, and leadership development

  The right person for the job will have broad rehabilitation medicine skills and a CCT/CESR in rehabilitation medicine with an interest in prosthetics and major trauma.

  Interviews are scheduled to take place on 19 September 2025

  Main duties of the job

  This job spans two main teams - mostly involved with the acute hospital major trauma team and secondarily with the prosthetics service. Professional support comes from the Rehabilitation Medicine colleagues: one consultant to be mostly based at University Hospital Plymouth with cross cover on the planned activities and two consultants based at Mount Gould Community Hospital.

  The consultant job plans are based on a 7.5:2.5 DCC:SPA ratio. There are additional opportunities in medical education and the rehabilitation medicine services already provided (outpatients, spasticity etc).

  Your peer support will be in our community physicians and rehabilitation medicine group unified by the care of people, outside the acute hospital, limited by frailty, neurological or severe illness. We are proud to be a group of doctors with a mix of specialty backgrounds, working patterns and interests. You will, however, also be part of the networks of physicians and surgeons working with our shared client group.

  Our community group has close relationships to other teams such as adult psychiatry, community therapy, crisis response and long term condition nurses. We all use one electronic record system which is also shared with many local GP surgeries. This makes joined up care a reality.

  About us

  Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

  As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

  We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

  We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

  Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

  Details

  Date posted

  16 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £105,504 to £139,882 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  B9832-MD-2025-346

  Job locations

  University Hospital Plymouth

  Derriford Road

  Plymouth

  Devon

  PL6 8DH

  
  

  Livewell Southwest, Thornberry Centre

  1 Brest Way

  Plymouth

  Devon

  PL6 5XW

  
  

  Livewell South West

  Mount Gould Road

  Plymouth

  PL4 7QD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached Job Description for Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine: Major Trauma, Prosthetic & Community Neurorehabilitation

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached Job Description for Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine: Major Trauma, Prosthetic & Community Neurorehabilitation

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
  • CCT/CESR in Rehabilitation Medicine (or within six months).

  Desirable

  • Higher qualifications in rehabilitation.
  • Qualifications in teaching and learning.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Training and wide experience in the field of rehabilitation medicine.
  • Secure background general medical experience and competency to manage on-call emergencies at senior level (if on-call).
  • Experience of working with managers to improve patient experience and service delivery.
  • Experience in clinical audit.
  • Understanding of clinical research.
  • Understanding of teaching principles for undergraduate, postgraduate and interdisciplinary learners.
  • Proven ability to motivate, support and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
  • High professional and ethical standards.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • A commitment to continuous professional development.
  • Basic computer/IT skills.

  Desirable

  • Ability to manage limb spasticity with botulinum toxin injections.
  • A special interest or advanced experience in prosthetics, major trauma.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NHS.
  • Evidence of service development and enacting change.
  • Ability to lead clinical services.
  • Relevant published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Experience in teaching, particularly at a multi-professional level and of undergraduates.
  • An enthusiasm to develop research opportunities.
  • Proven ability to organise and prioritise workload, delegating as appropriate and supervising staff.
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels.
  • Ability to balance competing pressures that come from holding more than one role.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
  • CCT/CESR in Rehabilitation Medicine (or within six months).

  Desirable

  • Higher qualifications in rehabilitation.
  • Qualifications in teaching and learning.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Training and wide experience in the field of rehabilitation medicine.
  • Secure background general medical experience and competency to manage on-call emergencies at senior level (if on-call).
  • Experience of working with managers to improve patient experience and service delivery.
  • Experience in clinical audit.
  • Understanding of clinical research.
  • Understanding of teaching principles for undergraduate, postgraduate and interdisciplinary learners.
  • Proven ability to motivate, support and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
  • High professional and ethical standards.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • A commitment to continuous professional development.
  • Basic computer/IT skills.

  Desirable

  • Ability to manage limb spasticity with botulinum toxin injections.
  • A special interest or advanced experience in prosthetics, major trauma.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NHS.
  • Evidence of service development and enacting change.
  • Ability to lead clinical services.
  • Relevant published papers in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Experience in teaching, particularly at a multi-professional level and of undergraduates.
  • An enthusiasm to develop research opportunities.
  • Proven ability to organise and prioritise workload, delegating as appropriate and supervising staff.
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels.
  • Ability to balance competing pressures that come from holding more than one role.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) 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 alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are 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).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) 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 alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are 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

  Employer name

  Livewell Southwest

  Address

  University Hospital Plymouth

  Derriford Road

  Plymouth

  Devon

  PL6 8DH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Livewell Southwest

  Address

  University Hospital Plymouth

  Derriford Road

  Plymouth

  Devon

  PL6 8DH

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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