Locum Consultant in Spinal Surgery (Paediatric)

Job description

Job 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 Childrens 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

• 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

• Higher medical degree
• Further training in microsurgical techniques
• To have a Certificate of Completion of Training

Experience

• 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

• 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

• Management qualification
• Education qualification

Other Requirements

• On Specialist Register in Trauma & Orthopaedics or its equivalent

• Full UK driving licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 7LD

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/