Senior Spinal Clinical Fellow
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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
This is a fixed term, 12 months Spinal Fellowship who will be based at Charing Cross and St. Mary's Hospital. You will join a multidisciplinary team of Consultants, Specialty doctor and associate specialists, Specialist trainees, GP trainees, Clinical Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and Pharmacists who work in Neurosurgery. The spinal fellows are responsible for the spinal on-call service from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday, 1 week every 4 weeks (1:4 rota) at St Mary's Hospital. This includes daily ITU and Major Trauma Ward rounds, managing the referrals coming from the district general hospitals of the North West London region and assessing the acute spinal patients including patient with metastatic cord compression referred via the oncology pathway. Clinical duties do not include an out-of-hours service and therefore this job does not come with a salary out-of-hours on-call banding. For the remaining weeks the fellow is expected to attend the elective service (theatre and out-patient clinic) at Charing Cross and/or St. Mary's Hospitals
Main duties of the job
The Imperial Spinal Surgery Fellowship is dedicated to the advancements of the theory and practice of spinal surgery and is based at the Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. The Fellows will form part of Spinal team and be supervised by Mr Russo, Mr Kalsi, Mr Ulbricht, Mr Ibrahim, Mr Kareem, Mr Tsang, Mr Lee and Mr Eseonu.
The Spinal Unit covers a wide catchment area across northwest London providing elective, emergency, simple and complex spinal reconstruction surgery while also acting as a tertiary referral centre outside this region.
A range of spine disorders, including degenerative pathologies, spine emergencies, tumour resection, and reconstruction surgery in the cervical, thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar spine are treated.
The Spinal Fellow should be familiar with the basic principles of evaluation and treatment of the spinal patients. They will gain experience in the exposure of the entire spine including anterior, posterior and lateral approaches, including use of the operating microscope and minimally invasive techniques.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Weekly timetable:
Day
AM
PM
Monday
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Elective List at CXH
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Elective List at CXH
Tuesday
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Spinal Clinic
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
0r
Spinal Clinic
Wednesday
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Trauma List at SMH
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Spine Fracture Clinic at SMH
Thursday
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Elective Spinal List
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Elective Spinal List
Friday
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
Admin - Education
Oncall (1:4 week rota)
or
MDTs - Education
- Key working relationships
- Service Manager
- Theatre Schedulers
- Administration and support staff
- General Manager
- Clinicians
- The wider MDT
- HR Advisory
- Key areas of responsibility
- Patient Care
- Communication
Applicants must have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate for effective medical communication with patients and colleagues demonstrated by one of the following:
- that applicants have undertaken undergraduate Medical training in English.
- have achieved the following scores in International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application.
Information Management
1. Liaise with other Departments within the Hospital, for example the wards, other specialities, the Waiting List Office, Medical Records, Outpatients and IT and to ensure that the Department interfaces efficiently with them.
2. Maintain administrative systems (electronic and manual). This includes managing an accurate and up-to-date appointments diary, scheduling and planning the Senior Management Team and Medical Team future engagements including organising meetings, collating appropriate papers and gathering information in relation to the specific meetings.
3. Use, maintain and update the Trust's CERNER system.
4. To use IT templates and mail merge as required in order to generate letters.
5. The taking and transcribing of formal minutes for meetings.
6. Typing and data entry for Consultants and Managers using Microsoft packages and Departmental IT systems.
4. General Responsibilities
- To present a positive image of the Trust at all times
- Provide cover for colleagues as appropriate
- Undertake any other duties requested as appropriate to the banding.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registered/ licensed Medical Practitioner
- MRCS or equivalent qualification
- FRCS (Orth or SN) or equivalent
Language
Essential criteria
- Candidates are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements
Academic achievements including research/publications
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of recent publications
- Project Management experience
Audit
Essential criteria
- Understanding of principles of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Completion of audit cycles
Clinical skills
Essential criteria
- Appropriate to job description
Relevant experience
Essential criteria
- Experience or attitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description
- Previous spinal Surgery experience
Desirable criteria
- Complex spine surgery experience
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
- Job Description and Person Spec (PDF, 640.5KB)
- FRF (PDF, 272.6KB)
- Aspire to values (PDF, 132.8KB)
- Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)