Job summary
Employer heading
MTI Senior Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery
NHS Medical & Dental Senior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
The Trust wishes to appoint a Senior Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery as part of its MTI program who will be working on the middle grade rota in a 1:12 rota with a 24/7 complex spine and cranial consultant rota to gain experience in the UK.
The post holder is required to support inpatient and outpatient cranial and spinal services at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post holder will play a critical role in delivering the on call regional service for Hull and the Yorkshire & Humber region. The service treats patients from Hull, Scarborough, Bridlington, York, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Louth and Doncaster.
This post is open to overseas applicants who meet the eligibility for the Medical Training Initiative post only.
Main duties of the job
Neurology in-patient services are provided by a team of 6 Consultants based at Hull Royal Infirmary.
The Clinical Fellow will be part of a 1:12 work schedule rota (depending on staffing) including the allocation of theatres, clinics, MDT attendance and ward clinical duties.
The work programme is flexible to meet the needs of both the acute and elective demand working between Hull Royal Hospitals and Castle Hill Hospital.
The appointee will be expected to contribute to the established MDT services provided as part of their quality clinical indicators.
The current on call commitment is 1:12 full shift rota. During the period of on call the post holder will be resident on the premises. On call rooms are available with facilities to view PACS imaging.
Working for our organisation
Hull University Teaching Hospitals is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites, are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLaG.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- • Full Registration
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Part 1 or complete post graduate qualification in Neurosurgery
Desirable criteria
- • Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
- • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- • Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- • Evidence of participation in audit
- • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- • Original peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Shuaibu Dambatta
- Job title
- Neuroscience Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 605338
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