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Applicants are invited to apply for a Senior Clinical Fellow ST4+ Equivalent with on call Rota to start as soon as possible (This is a banded post). All applicants must hold a current GMC registration and have NHS experience. We are a major Neuroscience Centre and are undergoing further significant development as a tertiary referral centre for the Northeast London and Essex including additional critical care capacity. Neurosurgery has a dedicated ward as well as access to our joint Neurosciences ward and Neuro ITU. This role will be a core team member working within a multi-disciplinary team covering all aspects of Neurosurgery including complex spine, cranial, vascular and functional.

The trust aims to provide a comprehensive 7-day service to patients, and this may affect the working patterns currently being advertised for this post. Any changes made to the working patterns will be made for the benefit of the patient care and notifications of these changes will be explained to you throughout the recruitment process.

BHRUT is one of the largest Associate Teaching Hospitals, providing acute care for over 700;000 people from across 2 main sites - Queens and King George Hospitals, as well as peripheral sites at Barking Dagenham and Brentwood. In addition, our Trust is in an excellent location, close to central London and well situated in the Southeast. As well as all the advantages of being close to the city, you will discover that Essex has a beautiful countryside as well as excellent schools, transport links, amenities, and residential area The Trust has an on sit Nursery facilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer welcoming application from all sections of the community. Applicant who considers they have disability will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria. We also operate strict screening procedures for the posts with vulnerable children and adults. Only the short-listed candidates will be notified. We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date should we have an overwhelming response to the post.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a team of Neurosurgery registrars with extensive exposure to various subspecialities in Neurosurgery.

The post holder will participate in pre-operative assessment of patients, decision making in an MDT fashion, microsurgical and endoscopic skull base operations, post-operative care and clinic follow up of Neurosurgical patients. We are one of the firsts units in the UK to utilise the Airo intra-operative CT scanner for spinal navigation. We regularly perform minimally invasive decompressions and percutaneous fixations and will be expanding our MISS capabilities with fully endoscopic spinal surgery in early 2024.

There are daily CEPOD, and elective theatre lists as well as weekly subspeciality MDT meetings.  

• The post holder will participate in a 1:12 senior clinical fellow on call rota inclusive of nights.
• The post holder will participate in pre-operative assessment of patients, decision-making in an MDT fashion, complex operations, post-operative care and clinic follow-up of neurosurgical patients
• The post holder will be encouraged to undertake clinical outcome research and pathway development during the duration of the role

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across northeast London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.