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Spinal Muscular Atrophy & Mitochondrial Disorders Clinical Fellow
| Posting date: | 05 June 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 June 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9321-25-0723 |
Summary
Under Consultant supervision to act as the Oxford SMA Service clinical fellow working within the Oxford Adult & Paediatric Muscle Services and NHS England Highly Specialised Services for Rare Mitochondrial Disorders. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the Nusinersen (Spinraza) for both children and adults. They will be responsible in liaison with the SMA administrator arranging the daycase admission for adults (Neurosciences ward or the West Wing Neurosciences Investigation Unit), and the paediatric (Paediatric daycare ward). Jointly working with the SMA administrator, the post holder will liaise with intervention radiology (IR) when IR support for lumbar punctures mis required. A dedicated IR list has been agreed. Patients will need to be booked into the list after discussion with neuroradiology administrative team. If the post holder is an adult trainee, they will have support from paediatric neurology trainees to perform lumbar punctures in children. The post holder will complete the SMA REACH medical assessments and will be responsible for all SMA REACH database enquiries. Regional neuromuscular service: The Adult & Paediatric Muscle Services are the regional specialist neuromuscular service for the Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties. Depending on the post holders interest they will have opportunity to attend the paediatric or adult muscle clinics and MDTs. Mitochondrial service: NHS England Highly Specialised Services for Rare Mitochondrial Diseases is only one of three specialist mitochondrial services in the UK. This service covers both children and adult patients. The post holder will be expected to attend mitochondrial clinics and MDTs.