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Senior Clinical Fellow in Functional Neurosurgery
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,825.00 to £70,425.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61825.00 - £70425.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9339-25-0345 |
Summary
The Neurosurgical Department undertakes approximately 3800 operative procedures per year, in a suite of 4 dedicated Neurosurgery theatres (3 x elective and 1 x emergency). Neurosurgery patients benefit from access to a fully functional Intraoperative MRI scanner in addition to navigation facilities in all theatres, Neuromate Robot, Intraoperative O-Arm for stereotactic localisations for DBS and Stereo EEG as well as routine Intraoperative Neurophysiology monitoring of cortical, subcortical white matter, spinal cord, cranial and peripheral nerves. The team is fully supported by access to specialist Neurosciences services including Neuroradiology, Neuropathology, Neurophysiology, Neuropsychiatry, and therapy services, as well as a dedicated team of DBS Specialist nurses. Neurosurgery benefits by working closely with a large and academically active Neurology and Neuro-Psychology department within the directorate. The Brain Centre within Southmead Hospital is a specialist hub for Dementia, MS and functional disorders with several ongoing national clinical trials which are run in conjunction with The Institute of clinical Neuroscience (ICN) allied to the University of Bristol. Consultants Sub-specialist interest(s) Skullbase Mr D G Porter Vascular, Skull Base Mr K Abhinav Endoscopic skull base, Pituitary, Vascular Mr Mario Teo Vascular, Skull base Mr Adam Williams Endoscopic pituitary and pain Neuro-Oncology Mr Ven Iyer Neuro-oncology & Spine Mr G P Malcolm Neuro-oncology & Spine Mr Neil Barua Neuro-oncology and Movement disorders Mr Constantinos Charalambides Neuro-oncology Complex Spine Mr Nitin R Patel Complex Spine Mr C Wigfield Complex Spine Mr Mark Nowell Complex Spine Ms Naomi Slator Complex Spine Functional Ms R Ashida Functional Neurosurgery Mr N K Patel Functional Neurosurgery, Pain Epilepsy Surgery Mr Angelo Pichierri Epilepsy Complex Hydrocephalus Mr R Edwards Complex Hydrocephalus, Spinal dysraphism There is a daily 8:00 a.m. combined clinical and radiology meeting; a weekly tumour MDT, fortnightly skullbase MDT, weekly epilepsy and movement disorders MDT, regular journal clubs and an academic teaching program. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to participate in departmental teaching and would be expected to participate in clinical governance and audit activities.. The out of hours commitment is a hybrid rota (consisting of 18 doctors) of four tiers of middle grade doctors depending on their experience in neurosurgery with the senior most tier providing support as non resident on-call. The emergency neurosurgical work will be from the same catchment population. There is a separate rota of complex spine surgery consultants (drawn from both neurosurgical and orthopaedic spinal units) who support the on-call registrar.