Clinical Fellow in ENT

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust invites applications for a full-time Senior Clinical Fellow in ENT Surgery based at The Lister Hospital, Stevenage, for 12 months. The post provides a platform to advance registrar-level surgical skills under supervision and involves on-call duties and teaching responsibilities.

The Fellow will participate in subspecialty clinics, MDTs, and research projects, with strong clinical and managerial exposure within a busy ENT department.

Qualifications

• Experience in ENT at SHO level is essential.

Responsibilities

• Supervise operating lists and clinics and be part of the out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Take defined management and teaching responsibilities within the ENT department.
• Contribute to collaborative research projects where possible.

Skills

ENT surgery experience (SHO level)

Job description

Applications are invited for a full-time post of Senior Clinical Fellow in Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgery for 12 months. The post is based at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and is designed to provide a platform for a registrar level surgeon to advance their clinical knowledge and skills The successful applicant will be actively involved in the clinical and managerial aspects of our ENT department. Our The ENT department performs regularly advanced ear operations (including bone conduction and middle ear implant work), advanced rhinology procedures, transoral robotic surgery, trans-nasal oesophagoscopy, and has the largest cohort of thyroid/parathyroid patients in Hertfordshire/ Bedfordshire. There are subspecialty clinics taking place daily (e.g hearing and balance, smell, thyroid/parathyroid, head and neck, paediatric) and different MDTs that the fellow will be expected to attend. There will be a defined management and teaching responsibility and the potential for collaborative research projects to be developed. Experience in ENT at SHO level is essential. The post-holder will be supervised in operating lists and clinics and will be part of the out of hours on-call rota. The successful applicant will be responsible to the Clinical Director of ENT, Ms Joanna Stephens

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.