Rhinology Fellow

This post is to back fill the regional rhinology fellow and will be for 12 months starting in July 2024. Your role will involve the following:

• Inpatient care
o Providing medical management for all ENT patients at the John Radcliffe hospital
• Emergency ENT service
o Including 1 in 8 on-call covering the ENT SHO bleep, managing referrals internally (from A&E and other wards) and externally (from primary care and referring hospitals) o Assessing and managing patients on the GP Referral Unit (acute ENT referrals)
• Outpatient care
o Nasal fracture clinic o General ENT clinics 2 per week o Specialist rhinology clinic 1 per week (One stop Sinusitis / Transcranial Trauma/Combined Airway Clinic
• Theatres
o 2 all day lists per week in rhinology with the opportunity to attend joint cases at other times with ophthalmology/plastics/neurosurgery. These will be shared with the SpR and it is expected that the fellow will do some teaching. In addition, there will be opportunities to be involved in the following for educational and training purposes:
• Departmental teaching sessions
• Clinical Governance meetings
• Audit, Research and Quality Improvement
There is plenty of support to participate in projects within the department. General The post-holder will assume a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of his/her department.

SPR (Equivalent to ST6 - ST8),
• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MRCS ENT/DOHNS
Desirable criteria
• FRCS ORL-HNS / European Board ORL Examination
• PHD, MD, MPhil, BSc, Completed at least ST 6 or equivalent higher surgical training in Otolaryngology, Core Surgical Training experience in related specialties (e.g. Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery), Excellent leadership skills.
• Competent in uncomplicated FESS/Septal Surgery
• Managing ENT emergencies e.g. tracheostomy, neck wounds, epistaxis
• Teaching ability Basic Surgical techniques
• Evidence of audit & research publications in surgery.
Desirable criteria
• Leadership training.
• Experience in septorhinoplasty
• Exposure to frontal sinus anterior and skull base surgery
• Surgical skills: Experienced in Rhinology
• Publications peer reviewed and presentations at learned society meetings/ conferences
• Good Clinical Practice certificate
• Experience with organising courses, meetings etc., 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. 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.

Mon - Fri ACCOMODATION The post holder is not required to be resident and if hospital accommodation is required then charges will be made.