Junior Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery (ST1 / 2 equivalent)

South East Neurosurgery/Spinal surgery unit consist of 9 Neurosurgical and 4 spinal consultants (with orthopaedic or neurosurgical training). The medical team consists of 11 registrars, 7 SHO level doctors, 1-2 Foundation year doctor(s) and 2 Advance Clinical Practitioners (ACP). There are 2 dedicated neurosurgical wards at the RSCH. In addition, there are a number of beds on critical care. The department is based in the new Louisa Martindale Building (3Ts) providing state of the art facilities including 3 dedicated neuro/spinal theatres with intra-operative MRI facilities, a brand new Neurointerventional angiography suite, O-arm, 3 Neuro-navigation systems, CT/MRI facilities near neuro-theatres and multiple MDT rooms., The successful applicants will cover both elective and emergency adult neurosurgery and spinal conditions working on wards, theatres, ICU/HDU and emergency department. The SHO on call rota is 1:7 and you will be working with highly motivated nursing, therapy and pharmacy teams. This is an excellent opportunity for junior doctors who aspire to become neurosurgeons, interventional neuro-radiologists, neurologists, neuro-oncologists or neuropathologists. All our posts are well supported and closely supervised by consultants and the successful post holders will be assigned an Educational and Clinical supervisor and will have regular career progress meetings. The trust strongly supports teaching and training and the post holders will be encouraged to attend the MRCS exam preparation sessions organised by the Core Surgical training programme. Previous post holders have progressed onto Registrar posts within the department or in other units.

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