Clinical Fellow – Skull base Neurosurgery | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	02 October 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£73,992 per annum + London weighting (+out-of-hours)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	01 November 2025
Location:	London, WC1N 3BG
Company:	University College London Hospital
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7453874/309-UCLH-6874

Summary

Applications are invited to the post of Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery – Skull Base.

We are proud to offer the opportunity to work as part of the team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery which is part of University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. As part of UCL Partners, we form the largest Academic Health Science Centre in Europe.

This post offers a unique training opportunity. It is suitable for a post-CCT Neurosurgery trainee, who wishes to pursue a focused one-year training in lateral skull base surgery, allowing her/him to pursue a career in skull base neurosurgery. The post is a full time appointment.

The fellowship is expected to be for 12 months duration; there may be an option for prolonging this for up to a second year.

The post holder would also be expected to participate in MDT skull base clinics with responsibility of seeing new and follow up patients. The post holder is integrally involved in the Multidisciplinary team meetings, and is expected to present patients during the meeting, gaining experience in pre and post -surgical evaluation and decision making.

We would welcome applications from any candidate whose career progression would be helped by a longer period of complex lateral skull base experience at registrar level including lateral orbital, subtemporal, transpetrous and retrosigmoid approaches.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.


We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street


We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.


We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.


For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Please note, due toanticipatedhigh volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You areadvised not to delaysubmittingyour completed application


Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*


*UCLH top trust to work at in England- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.


UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit:Flexible working. 


To discover more about what makes UCLHa great placeto work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?




This advert closes on Thursday 16 Oct 2025

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