Consultant Neurosurgeon

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Consultant Neurosurgeon, where you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional care. This position offers the opportunity to work in one of the busiest neurosurgical departments in the UK, providing both adult and paediatric services. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive environment, you will be able to enhance your skills and contribute to innovative practices in neurosurgery. The role includes participation in clinical audits, teaching junior staff, and engaging in research, all while being part of a diverse and dedicated team focused on improving patient outcomes. If you are passionate about advancing your career in a dynamic setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Administrative Support

Access to Clinical Facilities

Mentorship Programs

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and FRCS Neurosurgery or equivalent required.
• Evidence of technical skills and effective communication with patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical, administrative, and teaching functions across sites.
• Participate in on-call rota and support junior staff effectively.

Skills

Neurosurgery

Clinical Audit

Communication Skills

Quality Improvement

Teaching

Education

FRCS Neurosurgery or Equivalent

Full GMC Registration

Tools

Neuro Navigation Systems

Intraoperative Ultrasound

Neurosurgical Robot

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is looking to appoint a Consultant neurosurgeon. The appointee can undertake a wide range mixed practice if experience and requirement of the service demands. The successful candidate is expected to complement the existing consultants’ subspecialties interests and develop their own clinical specialist service. It is advantageous if there is interest in spinal dysraphism, management of intradural spinal pathologies across the age range amongst other specialist interests.

The post holder may have to travel between sites for providing clinical, administrative and training functions. This will be job planned if required and travel compensated as per government rules.

Main duties of the job

The job is advertised as 10PA. Extra PAs may be available for undertaking further clinical activities, administrative, managerial, teaching and external roles. The job requires being on call with departmental adult (1 in 14) and paediatric consultant (1 in 5) on call rota if paediatric practice is included in the job plan. The on call rota is non –residential. The new consultant will be supported in discharging professional duties. Administrative support and office space will be made available on appointment. The consultant will have equal access to all clinical facilities, professional supports, junior doctors and allied health staffs as members of the broader team. 1.5 PAs are available for mandatory training, appraisal, CPD, audit, governance, job planning and teaching and training in day-to-day practice. The Trust has the arrangements to ensure that all surgeons have an annual job-planning, appraisal with a trained appraiser and support surgeons going through the revalidation process. The Trust supports the requirements for continuing professional development (CPD) as laid down by the GMC and surgical colleges and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities. The department supports new consultants in identifying appropriate mentors. Department will signpost to specialist society supported well-being and mentoring opportunities as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

With over 20,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The QMC Neurosurgery department is one of the busiest neurosurgical departments in the country. We provide both adult and paediatric services to a wide regional area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire with catchment population of around three and half million. Our highly specialised unit undertakes around 2500 neurosurgical emergency, urgent and elective operations annually around 250 -300 of these in children. We are a part of the East Midlands Trauma Service and a major trauma unit. We run four modern, fully equipped theatres and have access to additional emergency theatres as required every day. The department has the latest neuro navigation systems, stereotactic frames, intraoperative ultrasound, 5-ALA and ICG-enabled microscopes and endoscopes. We have intraoperative MRI and an integrated neurosurgical operative suite. We have recently acquired a neurosurgical robot. Nottingham University Hospitals’ brain tumour centre is one of only two Trusts in the country to be recognised as a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence for both Adult and Paediatric tumour treatment. We are currently the only centre in the Midland providing age-comprehensive Functional neurosurgery and Neuromodulation service. Our fellowship programme is well sought-after and we currently run RCS fellowships in Functional Neurosurgery and Neuro-oncology.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC Reg/Eligible for Specialist Register/CCT expected within 6 months of interview date
• GCP

Professional Quals/Development

• FRCS Neurosurgery or Equivalent
• Other higher degrees or diplomas

Clinical Experience

• Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, their families and other health professionals.
• Ability to show career progression and a committed all round neurosurgery experience
• Oncology: Clinical Neuro-oncology experience (fellowship) 5 ALA Gliolan Trainug Spine: Neurosurgical Spine Experience( fellowship) CSF: Management and Quality improvement. Paediatrics emergency skills
• Specific training in communication skills
• Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors

Teaching, Audit & Research

• Evidence of participating in Clinical Audit
• Able to teach and support junior staff effectively
• Research
• Publications
• Teaching qualifications
• Involvement in national trials

Management Skills

• Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
• Demonstrable experience in quality improvement in clinical and teaching domains.
• Able to work in a team
• Examples of innovation and initiative
• Experience of change management

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "we are here for you" behavioural standards

Please note that this post does not attract relocation expenses.

Closing Dates

Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication

All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications.

Salary

The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence

All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy

NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks

NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation.

Consent

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay).

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.