Job summary
- Main area
- Surgery
- Grade
- Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-MI2557
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £61,825 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Fellowship in Spinal Surgery
Clinical Fellow
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
We are inviting applicants to apply for the Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at Ipswich Hospital.
The successful candidate will work with the 8 consultants in the Spinal Unit at Ipswich Hospital.
The post would be ideally suited to an orthopaedic or Neurosurgical trainee towards the end of their training with a specialist interest in spinal surgery techniques and complex spinal reconstruction. Any on call work carries additional remuneration.
This is post is for period of 12 months, extendable to 18 to 24 depending on needs, performance and availability.
Main duties of the job
The post offers experience in all aspects of spinal surgery except paediatric deformity & intradural work.
The Spine Fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in the spinal on call service, regular day case procedures, out-patient clinics, in-patient operating lists and regular research sessions.
The Spine Fellow will be responsible for regular review of the ward patients and coordinating the admission of spinal emergencies from surrounding hospitals.
Working for our organisation
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients’ own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites – totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There’s a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children’s Unit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Spine Fellow will be assigned to a named Clinical Educational Supervisor within the Spinal Unit for six months blocks. Within a 40hr contract, each ICENI Centre Fellow will contribute approximately:
- Supervised clinical activity within theatre of approximately 3-4 half-day sessions per week
- Supervised clinical activity within out-patient clinics of approximately 3 sessions per week
- Research and CPD activity of approximately 1 sessions per week
- Participation on the spinal on-call rota
- Involvement in clinical teaching of ST/FY doctors and medical students
- Participation in assessment, appraisal and revalidation activity
- Managing trauma patients while on-call, on wards and attending trauma calls as necessary
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- MRCS part 2 (UK) or equivalent
- ATLS
- Basic Surgical Skills course
- GMC registration with a license to practice
- Previous Registrar experience
- Previous Spine Experience
Desirable criteria
- FRCS T/O
- FRCS NEUROSURGERY Or Equivalent Qualification
- Abstracts and presentations to national meetings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Saajid Kaleel
- Job title
- Consultant Spine Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 02751
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