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Birmingham Thyroid Fellowship
| Posting date: | 13 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £55,329.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55329.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 March 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B15 2TH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C0020-24-0748 |
Summary
The Birmingham Thyroid Surgery Fellowship provides an excellent opportunity for the trainee to experience the high-volume workload in a supra regional university teaching hospital with multidisciplinary focus. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive training in the surgical management of a wide range of thyroid and parathyroid disease. The fellowship offers exposure to the medical and surgical management of malignant and benign thyroid cases, including retrosternal disease. In addition, the ENT department provides a large volume of parathyroid operations, including primary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism. Outpatient commitments include specialist thyroid clinics, thyroid oncology clinic and MTC clinic. Our department has close connection with University of Birmingham with Professor of Head & Neck Surgery. From an academic perspective, the department is currently involved in national clinical trials and there is plenty of opportunity to undertake research during the fellowship. The ENT Department has 30 full time equivalent consultants and 3 part time consultants. Within the ENT department at UHB, there are currently 8 consultants specialising in Head & Neck and thyroid surgery, with a newly appointed consultant Head & Neck Surgeon starting in October 2021. The pan-Birmingham Head & Neck and thyroid MDT is one of the largest MDTs in the country. The department performs more than 200 thyroid/parathyroid operations per year. The middle grade tier within the department consists of 9 middle grade doctors at the HGS site, including the Thyroid Fellow, 3 Associate Specialists, 3 trainees,2 speciality doctor and 1 Medical Training Initiative (MTI). At the QEHB site there are 8 middle grades, including 3 fellows (Head & Neck, Otology Skull base and Rhinology Anterior Skull base) and 5 trainees. There are 6 tier one doctors at the HGS site and 8 at the QEHB site.