Paediatric Spinal Consultant-SEC

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 four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, 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.

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 significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our internationally acclaimed Spinal Surgery Team at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The service is undergoing a significant transformation with an expanding workforce, increased theatre capacity and the acquisition of extensive enabling technologies to serve our patients' needs in keeping with our Trust values:
Delivering Compassion and Excellence together with Respect, Learning and Improvement.

We are looking for two full-time Consultant Spinal Surgeons - one with an interest in adult tumour surgery and one with an interest in complex paediatric deformity. The successful applicant will be working in a team of 10 spinal consultants, including academic, regional and neurosurgical colleagues. The posts will focus on the provision of surgery for complex spinal patients but also will an element of adult elective degenerative and emergency spinal surgery for the population of the Thames Valley region.

This will involve inpatient and day case surgery, outpatient clinics, and a one-in-twelve on-call commitment as part of a 24/7 on-call service. Applicants should have subspeciality fellowship level training and consultant experience would be desirable but not essential.

The successful applicant will be working in an integrated team of 12 consultants, including academic, regional and neurosurgical colleagues. The post will focus on the provision of surgery for paediatric deformity 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 a one-in-ten 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.

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. 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.

• FRCS (orthopaedics) or its equivalent
• Entry on Specialist Register, or within six months of entry
• To have completed appropriate training in spinal surgery
• GMC Registration
• Higher medical or associated degree
• Further training in microsurgical techniques
• 2 year Spinal Fellowship

• Broad experience of spinal surgery
• Experience with complex paediatric spinal surgery with demonstrable special interest and experience in early onset scoliosis
• Competence in offering expert clinical opinion on range of spinal problems
• Experience of spinal trauma…