Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant in Paediatric Spinal Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (This post is a Locum position however there is a view to make it substantive subject to satisfactory progress over a year and advisory appointment committee selection)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (on call 1-10)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-6279559-S1
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Spinal Surgery (Paediatric)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Consultant in Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery (Paediatric)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our internationally acclaimed Spinal Surgery Team at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a full-time Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon (Paediatric). The successful applicant will be working in a team of 9 consultants, including academic, regional, and neurosurgical colleagues. The post will focus on the provision of surgery for Paediatric patients, but also will have an element of adult elective and emergency spinal surgery for the population of the Thames Valley region. This will involve inpatient and day case surgery, outpatient clinics, and currently a 1 in 10 on call commitment as part of a 24/7 on call service.
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed and agreed on a personal basis. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
For further information/visit please contact Mr Chrishan Thakar, Clinical Lead, Spinal Consultant 01865 737940/227539 or email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Clinical
The successful applicant will be working in a team of 10 consultants, including academic, regional, and neurosurgical colleagues. The post will focus on the provision of surgery paediatric patients, but also have a large element in the provision of adult elective and emergency spinal surgery for the population of the Thames Valley region. This will involve inpatient and day case surgery, outpatient clinics, and currently a 1 in 9 on call commitment as part of a 24/7 on call service. A candidate with a demonstrable interest in research and service quality improvement will be of particular interest to the department.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Oxford Spinal Surgery Department provides a regional and supra-regional spinal surgery service. The department has strong links with the University of Oxford. There is research in the fields of paediatric deformity, adult deformity, spinal tumours and basic sciences with a nationally recognised back pain rehabilitation programme. This is a major spinal unit with all sub-specialities represented and with more than 3,000 operative procedures per annum. We have access to a neuroscience unit and level 3 Adult and Paediatric ITU. Our beds are housed in a purpose built Neurosciences Ward along with colleagues in neurosurgery and neurology, with further beds for less complex patients available in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Paediatric patients are looked after in the Oxford Children’s Hospital.
The Spinal Surgery Service forms part of the Neurosciences Directorate, which also hosts the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuro-Intensive Care, Neurophysiology and Neuropathology.
The post holder will undertake general and emergency spinal surgery and will have experience in both adult and paediatric spinal surgery. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre hosts the OUH Bone Infection Unit (BIU) and an expectation of the post will be to take a lead in spinal infections, including surgical site infections, and to work closely with the BIU and with infection control.
The department of spinal surgery is undergoing further development of our service delivery model with a renewed emphasis on integration with the neurosurgery department to provide high quality single access service delivery. Quality and training form an essential part of this vision. Going forward, changes are envisaged to team structures and the working model in order to optimise efficiency, clinical quality and training standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registered with licence to practice
- Entry on Specialist Register, or within six months of entry
- To have completed appropriate training in Spinal Surgery/2 year spinal fellowship
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- Further training in microsurgical techniques
- To have a Certificate of Completion of Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad experience in spinal surgery, including adult and paediatric emergency work
- Experience with spinal deformity
- Competence in offering expert clinical opinion on range of spinal problems both emergency and elective
- Ability to take full independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Experience of spinal trauma and on call
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of potential to lead a clinical team in a teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork Evidence of an ability to manage the varied demands of this post
- Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. Experience of supervising junior staff. Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities Involvement in clinical audit
- Peer reviewed publications
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Education qualification
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- On Specialist Register in Trauma & Orthopaedics or its equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Full UK driving licence
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
- Mr Chrishan Thakar
- Job title
- Spinal Consultant/Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 227539
- Additional information
Chrishan Thakar - [email protected]
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- Address
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