Oncological Fellow in Neurosurgery

To provide further sub-specialisation experience in Oncological Neurosurgery for fully trained neurosurgeons aspiring to be oncological neurosurgeons. This is a great opportunity to get surgical experience in complex oncological neurosurgery. The team has extensive experience and carries out a high number of awake craniotomies and also endoscopic procedures for gliomas and intraventricular tumours. The post also offers excellent opportunities of learning by attending the neuro-oncology MDT and Neuro Oncology clinics. The service is very research focused and running multicentre national trials and therefore research opportunities are plenty in intraoperative surgical technology, advanced brain imaging techniques for intraparenchymal tumours.

• GMC Registration
• FRCS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
• Higher Medical Degree/ FRCS (SN), General training in Neurosurgery to specialist level or equivalent, Interest in research with publications, Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills
• undertake effectively the role of clinical fellow in oncological neurosurgery in a large teaching hospital.
• Good personal and interpersonal skills Good spoken and written English. Communication skills should be highly developed.
• Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
Desirable criteria
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for it's modernisation.
• Computing skills: ability to use word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser.
• Management training and experience, 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., The Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is one of the largest teaching trusts in the country, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research. The Trust works in close co-operation with the University of Oxford, and is a leading centre for research programmes in cancer, neurosciences, diabetes, genetics and many other fields. The Trust, jointly with the University of Oxford, was recently awarded biomedical research centre status, by the Department of Health, making it one of the five pre-eminent centres in the country for translational medical research. It has also been awarded with the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) status. Further details are available online by searching the hospital website. Specialty Initiated by Sir Hugh Cairns in 1938, the Oxford Regional Neurosurgery Unit has developed to offer a fully comprehensive service. Modern theatres, two dedicated wards, ITU facilities and Paediatric beds enable the department to look after both Paediatric and adult patient with all types of neurosurgical problem. In addition to intracranial vascular and tumour surgery, there is expertise in the fields of functional surgery, epilepsy, pituitary surgery and skull base surgery. There is a great interest in all types of spinal disorders, including those of rheumatoid disease of the neck, and spinal tumours.