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Head and Neck Senior Clinical Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery

Job details
Posting date: 21 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £63,152 per annum. Plus enhancements for out of hours working
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 21 August 2024
Location: Derby, DE22 3NE
Company: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6292651/320-MDR-6292651-DP

Summary

A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.


The successful candidate will be part of a cohesive team involving head and neck surgeons (OMFS & ENT), orthodontists and allied health professionals. The post would offer opportunities for the fellow to further their knowledge, experience and skills in head and neck surgery including major head & neck resection and reconstruction (including micro surgery) ,
Trans oral robotic surgery, trans oral laser surgery, salivary gland surgery (including endoscopy) and other aspects of OMFS (orthographic , trauma etc).

Full Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice at time of application is essential.

The fellow is expected to work closely with specialist trainees in OMFS & ENT and dental core trainees.

The fellow is also expected to provide second tier on-call cover.
The role can be tailored to the training needs of the fellow including cross specialty exposure, if required.

As a Head and Neck fellow, he/she would be expected to attend Head and Neck clinics, work up patients and present at Head and Neck MDT and get involved with overall management of head and neck patients.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.



The Maxillo Facial Fellow will undertake general and specialist clinics. They will undertake minor surgery lists under local anaesthesia and assist consultants undertaking major head and neck, orthognathic and TMJ surgery.

This is an appointment to cover from Feb 2025- February 2026. Possession of the MBBS, GDC, plus full GMC registration with Licence to Practise at the time of application is essential.

The elective work involves daily ward rounds, time-tabled sessions for day case, theatre and outpatient clinics. Whilst it is not a recognised training post, this post is well supervised and there are opportunities to learn and develop skills.

This post will participate in the OMF On-call rota.

The post will be based at the Royal Derby Hospital.


This advert closes on Monday 29 Jul 2024