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Neurosurgery Skull base Trust Grade Reg | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 06 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,825 - £70,425 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 December 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG7 2UH |
| Company: | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6755464/164-6755464 |
Summary
NUH is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated skull base fellow support our neurosurgical department. This placement is for 12 months initially but may be extended.
This is an exciting opportunity to get excellent experience in neurosurgery.The appointed Skull base fellow will work with 4 skull base surgeons in the department and will achieve good experience in anterior as well as lateral skull base Extended endoscopic procedures and pituitary pathologies. This post will be an excellent opportunity for post CCT/recently qualified neurosurgeon to gather and improve skill sets required before starting career as skull base surgeon.
The post holder will be part of a team which include run through trainees as well as other trust grade doctors. You will work closely with consultants, other junior doctors and multi-disciplinary teams. The post holder will be part of a senior tier on-call rota at QMC covering junior trainee.
There are ample opportunities for work based assessments from the supervising consultants. You will also be allocated a Clinical Supervisor who will help identify career progression opportunities.
The post holder will contribute/supervise to the on-call rota and should therefore have previous neurosurgery registrar experience (or equivalent), have full MRCS and have experience working within the NHS.
QMC Neurosurgery department is now 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 3.5 million.
Nottingham neurosurgical team is led by 14 consultants providing treatment for all the major subspecialties of neurosurgery. Our highly specialised unit carries around 2000 neurosurgical emergency, urgent and elective operations a year. We are vital part of the East midlands trauma service and major trauma unit. We run 4 modern and fully equipped theatres and have access to one emergency theatre every day. The department is well equipped with up-to-date neuro navigation systems, intraoperative ultrasound, 5-ALA and ICG enabled microscopes and endoscopes. Our latest addition state of art Intraoperative MRI help us to provide best care for our paediatric and adult tumour patients. Nottingham University Hospitals’ brain tumour centre is one of few units in country to be recognised as a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence following the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
The post holder will be expected to;
• Provide inpatient and outpatient services (theatres and clinics) under consultant supervision
• Contribute to the emergency out of hours rota- senior 2nd tier cover
• Supervise daily ward rounds
• Conduct patient management in line with plans agreed with the Consultants
• Support and teach junior colleagues effectively
• Participate in M&M and MDT meetings
• Contribute to Quality & Improvement Projects within the department
• Attend departmental meetings
This advert closes on Sunday 17 Nov 2024