Locum Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgery

The successful applicant will join a current team of 4 substantive Consultants. The post-holder's commitments will include routine care of emergency and elective neurosurgical patients. This will therefore include the whole spectrum of paediatric cranial and spinal neurosurgical pathologies. The distribution of these specialist patients can be adjusted depending on the skills of the successful candidate. Appropriate administrative support will be provided to support this post.

Our neurosurgery department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with excellent links to the children's specialist services. In addition, the applicant will be involved in teaching both under and post-graduates and training neurosurgery specialist trainees. Close clinical ties with our adult neurosurgery colleagues exist, and teaching/audit is done jointly with the adult service.

Applicants should possess full neurosurgical training (to FRCS or equivalent), and subspeciality fellowship level training in paediatric neurosurgery.

• FRCS (SN) or equivalent.


• Full GMC registration


Desirable criteria


• Full GMC registration, CCT in Registration on GMC Specialist Registrar in Neurosurgery or within 3 months of CCT at the time of interview, Equivalent accreditation for those trained abroad, Work Experience: Extensive training and experience in Paediatric Neurosurgery


• Level of responsibility: Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems


Desirable criteria


• Locum or Consultant Experience, Leadership skills: Ability to lead a Team of professionals.


• Organisation and Management Skills: Effective administrative and time management skills


• Professional Skills or Achievements: Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork.


• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.


• Teaching and Training Skills: Experience of formal and informal contribution to Teaching and Training.


• Clinical Governance Experience: Experience of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.


Desirable criteria


• Management qualifications


• Computer skills: Word, excel, outlook and internet.


• Good spoken and written level of English.


• Training or experience on difficult communications.


• Education qualification Interest in Teaching with a portfolio of teaching and training achievements


• Experience in conducting clinical audits., 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. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

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., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation 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 four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

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.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., The Trust: The Oxford University Hospitals Trust is the 4 the largest Trust in the UK, consisting of 4 hospitals: John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Horton General Hospital. The children's services are based at JR and HGH, with all Paediatric neurosurgery services delivered at the JR. The Children's Hospital of Oxford is embedded within the main John Radcliffe Hospital, maximising access to facilities. The hospital provides emergency, secondary and tertiary services to paediatric patients within Oxford and the Thames Valley network. The Children's Hospital has approximately 106 children's beds, including a Paediatric Critical Care and High Dependency Unit, Children's Decision Unit, Children's Day Care, medical (2 wards), surgical, surgical specialities/neurosciences, haematology/oncology and adolescent wards. There is a large neonatal unit with 53 cots divided between LDU/HDU and Intensive Care.