Consultant Adult & Paediatric Spinal Surgeon | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E1 1FR |
| Cwmni: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7347350/259-MED7347350RLH |
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We are seeking a dynamicConsultant Adult & Paediatric Spinal Surgeonto join our expanding spinal surgery team at Barts Health NHS Trust. This substantive post supports the development of our complex spinal surgical service, which plays a vital role in the Trust’s elective programme and major trauma care.
You will primarily work across the Royal London Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital sites, participating in a 1:9 Consultant of the Week (COW) on-call rota based at the Royal London Hospital. This role includes contributing to the establishment of a consultant-led designated spinal trauma rota, delivering care for both adult and paediatric spinal trauma patients.
The position offers an exciting opportunity to lead in the development of our paediatric scoliosis service and to deliver comprehensive spinal trauma and elective care within a hyper-specialised, multidisciplinary team.
1. Patient Care: Maintain continuous responsibility for the care of patients under their charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care. The appointee will be expected to lead ward rounding in the morning during their Consultant of the Week duties and on their post-operative patients. The post holder will have full professional independence in medical matters but will be managerially accountable to the Trust and the Chief Executive through their lead clinician, clinical director, and CAG group director.
2. Leadership: Lead, develop, and organise the services under their charge in alignment with the Trust’s business plans. Engage with key stakeholders, including the lead clinician, General Manager, Service Manager and Clinical Director for Neurosciences.
3. Efficiency Improvement: Contribute significantly to departmental initiatives to enhance efficiency, including:
o Meeting the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard.
o Reducing patient length of stay.
o Optimising the ratio of new to follow-up outpatient attendances in line with commissioner expectations.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
1. Comprehensive Spinal Surgical Service: Provide a full adult and paediatric emergency spinal surgical service, including instrumented surgeries for the population of North East London. This includes:
o Inpatient and day-case surgeries.
o Ward rounding, on each morning of the COW-week and on post-operative patients.
o Outpatient clinics, including supervision of Registrar, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Extended Scope Practitioner clinics.
o Ongoing and regular liaison with the provided patient pathway coordinators (PPCs) provided to support the appointee’s practice.
2. On Call Service – Adult Spine:Participation in a1 in 9 Consultant of the Weekon-call rota as part of a 24/7 service. Complex Spine Consultants are on call and receive referrals that require Instrumentation, Spine Infections and Metastatic Spine Cord Compression (MSCC) referrals.
3. On Call Service – Paediatric Traumatic Spine:As part of the Adult On Call service, the post holder will be expected to support emergency paediatric referrals.
This advert closes on Monday 4 Aug 2025