Senior Clinical Fellow in ENT with Research | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Posting date:	13 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£43,455 - £64,288 pa
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 June 2025
Location:	Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Company:	East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7208481/361-R2R-2467

Summary

Applications are invited for a full-time post of Senior Clinical Fellow with Research in Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgery for 12 months. The post is based at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and is designed to provide a platform for a registrar level surgeon to advance their clinical knowledge and skills

The successful applicant will be actively involved in the clinical and managerial aspects of our ENT department. Our The ENT department performs regularly advanced ear operations (including bone conduction and middle ear implant work), advanced rhinology procedures, transoral robotic surgery, trans- nasal oesophagoscopy, and has the largest cohort of thyroid/parathyroid patients in Hertfordshire/ Bedfordshire. There are subspecialty clinics taking place daily (e.g hearing and balance, facial palsy, smell, thyroid/parathyroid, head and neck, paediatric) and different MDTs that the fellow will be expected to attend.

Clinical
Clinically, this is an excellent opportunity within the ENT unit at the Trust for the appointee to further their interest and surgical knowledge and skills. The ENT department performs regularly advanced ear operations (including bone conduction and middle ear implant work), advanced rhinology procedures (and use of Navigation), transoral robotic surgery, trans-nasal oesophagoscopy, and has the largest cohort of thyroid/parathyroid patients in Hertfordshire/ Bedfordshire. There are subspecialty clinics taking place daily (e.g hearing and balance, smell, thyroid and parathyroid, head and neck, paediatric) and different MDTs that the fellow will be expected to attend. The post-holder will be supervised in operating lists and clinics. The post holder will be part of an on-call rota (1 in 8 hot weeks, no out of hours on call commitment).


Research
The post-holder will have dedicated research time and will be expected to contribute to existing departmental projects, as well as initiate new projects aimed at achieving publications, national presentations, and attracting funding for the department and the Trust

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.


This advert closes on Tuesday 27 May 2025