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Trust Grade in Neurosurgery
| Posting date: | 04 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £55,329.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55329.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7LJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9160-477000 |
Summary
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIVERPOOL AREA AND THE LOCAL REGION Liverpool is a dynamic city. It has experienced a major revival over the past few years and Merseysiders enjoy a superb quality of life. It is unusually compact and a journey to the centre rarely takes more than 30 minutes. The county abounds with fine architecture, lively cultural pursuits and outstanding sport. Tourism has become a major industry and 20 million people visited the city last year, attracted by both the areas natural and man made assets. Merseyside's theatres, museums and art collections are now amongst its strongest assets. The city is alive with independent theatre groups, authors, poets and dance groups. Photography, sculpture, street art and video makers abound. The Walker Art Gallery contains a collection of equal to any in the provinces and the Tate Gallery opened in 1988 on Liverpool's waterfront in the refurbished Albert Dock. The Philharmonic Orchestra is nationally acclaimed and there is a full range of musical activities of all types. There are both Anglican and Roman Catholic Cathedrals and facilities for worship for every other faith in the city. There are excellent schools for both sexes, including a variety of denominational schools for both in the private and state sector. The University Medical School and the Liverpool Medical Institution are within 20 minutes drive of the Walton Centre. Very good housing in pleasant suburbs near the sea and in rural areas are easily available, the cost of which is rather less than the national average. Two airports are within easy reach. Liverpool and Manchester International Airport are within half to three quarters of an hours drive time. There are excellent train services and motorway links to all parts of the country, with easy access to the national parks, North Wales, the Peak District and the Lake District, as well as to both Lancashire and North Wales coasts. South Sefton is the home of the Grand National Racecourse at Aintree and also embraces the Freeport of Liverpool. There are several excellent nearby golf courses of which three host the Open Championship. In 2008 Liverpool will become the European City of Culture. THE WALTON CENTRE NHS Foundation Trust The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (WCFT) is an independent specialist neurosciences NHS Trust hospital providing a high quality, integrated and multidisciplinary neurosciences service to Merseyside, North Wales, the Isle of Man and part of West Lancashire which totals a population of 3.2 million.. The Centre is adjacent to the University Hospital Aintree which is a busy District General Hospital Trust located 6 miles from the centre of Liverpool. The Centre is based in a purpose built building, opened in 1998. The Centre is virtually self contained and has 84 neurosurgical beds, 48 Neurological beds (including a day ward and a programmed investigation unit), and 4 pain relief beds. Critical care facility comprises an 18 bedded dedicated Neuro-Intensive Care Unit and a 4 bedded high dependency area. The centre is organised into three divisions; neurosurgery lies in the directorate of neurosurgery, critical care and anaesthesia and pain services. The other directorates comprise neurology and diagnostics. Activity There are almost 4000 neurosurgical admissions per annum and 3500 operations of which 450 are pain relief procedures. There are four fully staffed neurosurgical operating theatres and one Pain Relief operation theatre. An additional emergency theatre is available for a limited number of sessions per week. Outpatient clinics including specialised ones are held within the Centre; there are further clinics in surrounding hospitals including Chester, Whiston, and Wigan. Neurosurgical Staff In addition to the consultant staff, there are 10 higher surgical trainees, 7 Clinical Fellows and 7 Junior trainees (out of a pool of 15). Consultants currently in post and their special interests are: Mr AR Brodbelt Neuro-oncology, general, spinal neurosurgery Mr N Buxton Spinal and vascular neurosurgery Miss D Bhargava General and functional neurosurgery Mr N Carleton-Bland General and complex spinal neurosurgery Mr D Carter Specialist neurosurgeon and Clinical Director Mr E Chavredakis General, neuro-oncology and vascular Mr S Clark General, complex spinal neurosurgery and Spinal Consultant Lead Mr J Farah General and functional neurosurgery Miss C Gilkes General, skull base neurosurgery Prof M Jenkinson Neuro-oncology, and general neurosurgery Mr D Lawson Neuro-oncology, general neurosurgery Miss M Lee Locum: General, complex spinal neurosurgery Miss C McMahon Trauma, general neurosurgery Miss C Morgan Orthopaedic complex spinal surgeon Mr F Olubajo General, trauma and neuro-oncology Mr TJD Pigott General, spinal neurosurgery Mr N Rath Orthopaedic surgery complex spine Mr A Sinha General, paediatric, pituitary neurosurgery (Alder Hey) Mr Z Sarsam General and complex spinal neurosurgery Mr M Wilby General and complex spinal neurosurgery Mr J Yousaf General, skull base and vascular neurosurgery Mr R Zakaria General and cranial neurosurgery Mr P Annis Orthopaedic complex spinal surgeon Mr M De Matas Orthopaedic complex spinal surgeon Mr R Popa Orthopaedic complex spinal surgeon Mr S Thambiraj Orthopaedic complex spinal surgeon Neurooncology Research There are links to a number of university laboratories, and a number of ongoing research projects. Funding for an NHIR research fellow has just been approved. There are research programmes into the molecular biology of neurological tumours, the relationship with advanced MR imaging, conformal radiotherapy, and stereotactic surgery, which provides opportunities for research. The clinical neurosurgeons hold honorary clinical lecturer appointments (one as senior lecturer) and are active in research in their sub-specialist fields. Within the Walton Centre there is a purpose built Clinical Trials Unit, which is fully staffed and will undertake clinical trials research under consultant supervision. 8. Postgraduate Education The WCNN has a very active programme of postgraduate education with a regular weekly series of clinical meetings, lectures, journal clubs and neuropathology. The Centres library is situated in the Clinical Sciences Centre. The new Clinical Sciences building contains an IT resource centre which will give access to appropriate software for medical research material, etc. This can also be accessed via the Centres own IT system. The education facilities include a Lecture Theatre with a capacity of 225 equipped with the latest audio visual aids, video conferencing facilities, an exhibition facility and seminar rooms 9. Paediatric Neurosurgery Paediatric Neurosurgery is undertaken at the Royal Liverpool Childrens NHS Trust some 4 miles away, which also accommodates the paediatric neurology. There are joint specialist clinics at Alder Hey eg the Paediatric Neuro-oncology, Cranio-facial Surgery clinic. 10. Neuropsychology The department comprises three consultants and a number of assistants. The bulk of the work of the service is related to pain management and epilepsy but is available to support, as required, other areas. Help is provided for example in respect of neuropsychological outcomes following neurosurgical diseases. Neurosurgical The post holder will be working as a Neurosurgery Registrar across the Neurosurgery service. The sub specialty Neurosurgery practice is provided in Oncology, Skull base, Functional, Vascular, Spinal, Hydrocephalus and Trauma. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to experience all aspects of sub specialty surgery and will be a member of the team on a busy Neurosurgery on-call rota. On Call The postholder will take part in registrar on call for adult (WCFT) neurosurgery. On call for the Walton Centre is a resident shift based system. On call is compliant with both EWTD and BMA guidelines on junior doctors hours of work. At present there is a two tier on call for the most junior registrar with a second senior registrar available. Educational Approval The 10 Specialist Registrar posts in neurosurgery have been approved for Higher Surgical Training in Neurological Surgery by the Specialist Advisory Committee in Neurological Surgery and Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training of the Royal College of Surgeons.