Skull Base Fellow in Neurosurgery - Transformation Unit : Job Details

Main area: Neurosurgery

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05)

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (with on-call commitments)

Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week (with on-call commitments)

Job ref: 321-NOTS-MS-6721101-S6

Employer: OxfordUniversity Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: John Radcliffe Hospital

Town: Oxford

Salary: £70,425 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/12/2024 23:59

Skull Base Fellow in Neurosurgery

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training, and research.

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, focusing on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.

!!Start date for this post is August 2025!!

To provide further sub-specialisation experience in Skull Base Neurosurgery.

Main duties of the job

• To provide 16 - 32hrs of general neurosurgery on-call cover per week.
• To work with the Skull Base Surgery neurosurgeons based at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
• Access to two full day elective operating lists per week (whilst present on the rota) plus emergency operating if relevant to training.
• A full shift rota is currently in place with allocated study leave and rest periods.

Person specificationQualifications

• GMC Registration
• FRCS or equivalent
• Higher Medical Degree / FRCS (SN)

Experience

• General training in Neurosurgery to specialist level or equivalent
• Interest in research with publications

Skills & Knowledge

• Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills
• Good spoken and written English; communication skills should be highly developed.
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for its modernisation.
• Management training and experience

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.

Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

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.

Name: Mr Sanjeeva Jeyaretna

Job title: Consultant - Neurosurgeon

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 01865 234838

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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