Clinical Fellowship In Advanced Pain Management

We are delighted to advertise a twelve-month clinical Fellowship in Advanced Pain Management suitable to meet the RCOA 2021 curriculum requirements for the Special Interest Area in Pain Medicine. This post is an exciting opportunity for a post-CCT anaesthetist or a senior anaesthetic registrar to join our team and develop their advanced pain management skills. We pride ourselves in training excellence and have received excellent feedback from our previous Fellows.

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics for this one-year Pain Medicine Fellowship. This unique fellowship is highly structured, combining didactic, clinical audit and research components. The Fellow will be allowed the flexibility to mould the programme to their specific requirements. The Fellow will be provided with an outstanding opportunity to manage complex pain management cases, and to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills for independent pain medicine practice.

Main duties of the job

Training in advanced pain medicine, progressing from direct supervision to mentored support. We train our Fellows to the level of independent consultant practice.

Directly supervised clinics within the OPMC will be available for Fellows to review and assess new patients following a biopsychosocial model and multidisciplinary format in order to deliver holistic care.

Training will include exposure to assessment of patients with pain in complex scenarios including with psychological distress.

This post provides exposure to leading in-patient acute pain rounds.

Access to combined multidisciplinary chronic pain assessment clinics is available.

Directly consultant supervised interventional procedure lists are available for the Fellow to gain the requisite skills needed for advanced interventional pain management procedures in musculoskeletal blocks, peripheral nerve blocks and neuraxial blocks. Training will include radiofrequency, fluoroscopic and ultrasound guided techniques.

The fellow will be expected to attend the Optimise pain management programme and gain insight into the structure and function of the multidisciplinary pain management programme.

Clinical exposure to other departments with interests in pain management as detailed above.

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. The Trust is made up of the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Women's Centre, the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Heart Centre and Eye Hospital), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. The Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia consists of over 120 Consultant Anaesthetists and 60 trainees.