Clinical Fellow in Perioperative Medicine

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in Oxford is offering a unique fellowship opportunity in Perioperative Medicine. The role involves working with a dynamic perioperative team, engaging in major trauma, general surgery, and elective orthopaedics, with opportunities for service development and quality improvement projects. Candidates must possess Full GMC Registration, a relevant higher degree, and appropriate UK professional registration. This position is designed for those eager to enhance their skills and knowledge in perioperative care.

Qualifications

• Must have a license to practice in the UK.
• Experience in audit, quality improvement, or research.
• Willingness to complete relevant courses such as Certificate or Diploma in Perioperative Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to local and national audit and lead on a quality improvement project.
• Participate in service development projects and MDT alongside anaesthesia and cardiology.
• Provide acute medical and post-operative care and optimize patients for surgery.

Skills

Full GMC Registration

Evidence of service/guideline development

Excellent feedback from teaching

Appropriate UK professional registration

Education

MSc, PhD, or other higher degree

Specialty National Training Number in geriatrics, general internal medicine or anaesthesia

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to learn from our dynamic and growing perioperative team and help develop our service to deliver the highest quality care to other surgical specialities. We will give you experience working in major trauma, general surgery, elective orthopaedics and vascular liaison, and the opportunity to undertake service development projects in other surgical specialties. You will also be able to participate in a physician led pre-assessment clinic, attend the pre-assessment MDT alongside anaesthesia and cardiology. You will contribute to local and national audit and lead on a quality improvement project of your choice. If you wish to complete the Certificate, Diploma or Masters in Perioperative Medicine (UCL), or equivalent relevant course, then we would support this and arrange appropriate time within your job plan to dedicate private study for this. This fellowship will provide a great opportunity to develop autonomy and leadership skills by contributing to new service developments, audit, including NELA, National Major Trauma Network (NMTR), NHFD, Mortality & Morbidity review, teaching and quality improvement projects.

• Full GMC Registration and hold a licence to practice, MSc, PhD, other higher degree, , Specialty National Training Number in geriatrics, general internal medicine or anaesthesia (or equivalent qualification), Evidence service/guideline development through audit, QI or research, Excellent feedback from teaching, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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 significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families., The John Radcliffe is a one of five Major Trauma Centres in the South of England, accepting patients with severe injuries from Oxfordshire and all neighbouring counties, serving a population of over 3-million. The trauma unit also provides care to over 500 hip fractures a year., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching and acute trusts, and is a world renowned centre of clinical excellence. Many surgical services are multisite, with the bulk of the emergency work being undertaken at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and with predominantly elective surgical services at the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; a small-moderate volume of work is undertaken at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. The perioperative physicians have become an essential part of the surgical department working collaboratively with the surgeons, anaesthetists and the multidisciplinary team. We provide acute medical and post-operative care, optimise patients for surgery and co-ordinate discharge planning for complex patients. We also provide teaching on perioperative medicine for surgical junior doctors, attend all surgical governance meetings including morbidity and mortality meetings and contribute to high-risk decision making. This year our team including our perioperative medicine fellows have run a number of quality improvement and service development projects in surgery around themes including patient blood management, post-operative cognitive dysfunction and delirium, consent and antiocoagulation management. This approach has shown a positive impact with respect to improvement of quality, patient safety and a reduction in length of stay and morbidity.