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Locum Consultant Neurosurgeon | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 31 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 August 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG7 2UH |
| Company: | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6425190/164-6425190 |
Summary
Nottingham University Hospitals Department of Neurosurgery is looking to appoint a Locum Consultant Neurosurgeon. The post holder will require to complement existing departmental specialist interests and service delivery priorities. This post is for 4 months
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is looking to appoint a Consultant adult and paediatric neurosurgeon interested in adult hydrocephalus and paediatric functional neurosurgery. The successful candidate is expected to complement the existing consultants’ subspecialties interests and develop their own clinical specialist service. It is advantageous if there is interest in developing paediatric functional neurosurgery and CSF disorders across the age range.
The job is advertised as 10PA. Extra PAs may be available for undertaking further clinical activities, administrative, managerial, teaching and external roles. The job requires being on call with departmental adult (1 in 14) and paediatric consultant (1 in 5) on call rota. The on call rota is non –residential
The QMC Neurosurgery department is one of the busiest neurosurgical departments in the country. We provide both adult and paediatric services to a wide regional area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire with catchment population of around three and half million. Our highly specialised unit undertakes around 2500 neurosurgical emergency, urgent and elective operations annually around 250 -300 of these in children. We are a part of the East Midlands Trauma Service and a major trauma unit. We run four modern, fully equipped theatres and have access to additional emergency theatres as required every day. The department has the latest neuro navigation systems, stereotactic frames, intraoperative ultrasound, 5-ALA and ICG-enabled microscopes and endoscopes. We have intraoperative MRI and an integrated neurosurgical operative suite. We have recently acquired a neurosurgical robot. Nottingham University Hospitals’ brain tumour centre is one of only two Trusts in the country to be recognised as a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence for both Adult and Paediatric tumour treatment. We are currently the only centre in the Midland providing age-comprehensive Functional neurosurgery and Neuromodulation service. Our fellowship programme is well sought-after and we currently run RCS fellowships in Functional Neurosurgery and Neuro-oncology
Please see the attached job description for the main responsibilities and key relationships of the job.
This advert closes on Wednesday 7 Aug 2024