Consultant Neurologist. Remote working opportunity!

About Medefer

Medefer is an innovative CQC registered healthcare provider that aims to transform the way that healthcare is delivered by enabling healthcare systems to provide patients with the best healthcare experience - timely, efficient and effective.

Founded by Consultants and GPs working in the NHS, our culture is driven by a deeply held commitment to the NHS and delivering transformational change to the patient experience. We are a passionate, dedicated and patient-focused team striving to make healthcare fit for the 21st century. Our vision is to completely re-frame the way that healthcare is delivered, giving patients the right to choose who will provide their care at the point of a GP referral to a specialist.

Medefer’s technology platform delivers world-class leading safety, whilst delivering a unique approach in delivering a national service to patients, from referral, to treatment and discharge.

We are a ground-breaking healthcare company.

We are unique in what we do.

And we need exceptional people, like you.

About the role: Consultant Neurologist

Our Consultants are responsible for providing virtual specialist care to our patients; reviewing and triaging referrals and providing advice and guidance back to GP’s, arranging and following up on investigations and writing onward referrals to hospital departments where necessary.

You can work as many hours as you would like each week, with no minimum or maximum expectation, and you can decide the days and times you wish to work, whether that be evenings, weekends, or weekdays (providing patient cases are available).

This is a fully remote role, and due to the nature of the role you must have a private and secure space from which to work with reliable internet access.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide virtual specialist care to patients within your speciality.
• Review and triage referrals.
• Provide advice and guidance back to GPs, requesting and following up on investigations, and writing onward referrals to hospital departments where necessary.
• Recommend patients for telephone clerking assessments (by registrars and advanced nurse practitioners).
• Follow up on the results of investigations with patients, GP’s and hospital departments.
• Create an appropriate and comprehensive clinical management plan including prescribing.
• Document patient information and plans of care via Medefer’s Secure IT platform.
• Complete patient outcome data fields to enable tracking and feedback to NHS England.

About You:

You will be:

• A Neurology Consultant with NHS experience
• Registered with the GMC with an active licence to practice.
• On the Specialist Register and be able to provide current documents in accordance with clinical competence requirements.
• Have an interest in digital health, clinical informatics and in new ways of working.
• Have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Possess excellent time management, planning, and prioritising skills.
• Be detail oriented, able to process detailed information effectively, consistently, and accurately.

To apply and/or register your interest in joining our Team, please visit us via

For further information and a full job description, please contact Georgina, our Talent Acquisition Manager: [email protected]

Medefer is a Disability Confident Employer.

We commit to interviewing applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the job. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please let us know in your application or by contacting our recruitment team.

Medefer fully complies with the Equality Act 2010. We are an equal opportunities employer, value diversity and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. 

Medefer is dedicated to ensuring the safety and well-being of everyone who uses the company services or work within the organisation. In this role, you’ll help us to protect vulnerable people from harm and abuse. We require all team members to follow local safeguarding policies and complete necessary training to maintain a safe, respectful and proactive environment. Background checks are mandatory for successful candidates, and a commitment to safeguarding practices is essential.

Medefer contact details are provided for the specific purpose to support potential candidates and are not to be used to market services. The named individual has not consented to unsolicited marketing emails. ‘Direct marketing’ means the communication, by whatever means, of marketing material which is directed at individuals. Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) apply to unsolicited emails, for which the individual has not provided consent. Medefer takes the privacy of individuals very seriously and failure to abide by this notice will result in action taken.