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Neurosurgery SHO/Junior Fellow
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,909.00 to £61,825.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49909.00 - £61825.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9200-25-0775 |
Summary
Junior Clinical Fellow for NeurosurgeryThe SHO works in the neurosurgical unit which is one of the busiest departments in the United Kingdom. The SHO duties are to: manage the day to day care of neurosurgery patients on the ward including the assessment of allnew admissions to the ward and, where necessary, in A & E support the management of neurosurgery patients on the critical care units attend daily neurosurgical team teaching teach medical students and other staff on the unit when on duty the SHO will have a neurosurgical registrar available at all times and a consultant isavailable on-call from home all SHOs are encouraged to attend theatres when consultants on their firms are in theatre, providedthe wards are covered, and to learn how to do a burr hole and to raise a craniotomy flap. There is adedicated theatre/clinic week in the timetable to support this St. Georges Hospital is a designated University of London Teaching Hospital that has responsibilityfor teaching both nurses and undergraduate medical students attached to the wards. There is adaily meeting of the neurosurgical team as well as weekly multidisciplinary meetings in spine,oncology, movement disorders, paediatrics and vascular neurosurgery and a fortnightly skull baseMDT SHOs are encouraged to take part in the many ongoing clinical research and audit projects. Thereare no direct administrative duties, all the duties outlined take place in the Atkinson Morley Wing ofSt. Georges Hospital. It is always accepted that occasional emergencies and unforeseencircumstances may occur, which may involve the SHO in additional duties at times, cover paediatric patients under the care of the neurosurgical team on the paediatric ward