Spinal Senior Clinical Fellow | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Posting date: | 12 February 2025 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | Salary is dependant on experience |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 14 March 2025 |
Location: | Stanmore, HA7 4LP |
Company: | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust |
Job type: | Contract |
Job reference: | 6977101/392-MS003-SCF |
Summary
Recruitment for x5 Spinal fellow from April 2025
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital provides a comprehensive range of neuro-musculoskeletal health care ranging from the most acute spinal injury or complex bone tumour to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic back pain sufferers. This broad range of neuro-musculoskeletal services is unique within the NHS. The Spinal Unit a busy and integral part of the RNOHT. It includes the largest Spinal Deformity service in the UK, a Degenerative Spine service with four surgeons and allied professionals, and it provides a surgical service for Spinal Injuries, Spinal Infection and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression.
The Fellowship will provide skills and competencies above and beyond what is currently required to obtain a CCT in the relevant surgical speciality. The Fellowship offers exposure to a wide range of Degenerative, Adult Deformity surgery and paediatric deformity surgery (with specific reference to Minimal Access techniques as well as Computer Navigated Spinal Surgery).
The post is based mainly at Stanmore; however, you undertake outpatient clinics in our central London at our Bolsover Street department.
Other experience in the form of audit or research is desirable
• Full registration with GMC
• FRCS
• NTN in relevant surgical specialty
• Within 6 months of CCT date.
Applicants should either have the CCT or have undertaken 1 year Spinal fellowship or close to it.
The Fellowship is in Spinal surgery focusing primarily on Spinal deformity. The fellow will also gain competence in computer navigated spinal surgery.
He/she will be expected to develop knowledge both clinically and surgically over the year fellowship. The aim of the surgical fellowship is to prepare the successful candidate for complex spinal surgery at consultant level. The case mix of spinal surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is extensive: paediatric and adult complex spinal deformity, spinal tumours, spinal infections, low back and neck surgery and spinal trauma including osteoporotic fracture management.
The fellow will also develop sufficient knowledge and leadership in order to take a leading role as a Consultant in a department dealing with complex spinal conditions and their sequel, which, with altered life style, expectations and medical advances means that spinal surgeons are expected to handle increasing complex cases. The fellow will develop the communication skills and attitudes to set them up for Consultant practice in a centre of excellence to enable them to develop their skills further and train the next generation of spinal surgeons.
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
This fellowship year will provide specialist training in the following:-
• MDT administration and delivery for tertiary referrals
• Pre and post-op ward rounds
• Surgical multidisciplinary procedures
• Clinics & theatre list
• Clinical research including data collection and audit.
• Preparation of abstracts and papers for presentation and publication
The post is dedicated to the development of high level clinical and research experience in the field of spinal deformity correction.Additionally the fellow will prepare a surgical plan for each patient.
Participation and presentation of interesting/complex cases at the weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings for spinal deformity patients. In addition to routine clinical commitments and research session the fellow may also be called upon to occasionally teach MSc students, specialist registrars and more.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Feb 2025
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