Senior Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery - Skull Base and Vascular

The Fellowship curriculum is consistent with the four domains of Good Medical Practice:

• Knowledge, skills and performance
• Safety and quality
• Leadership, communication, partnership, and team-working
• Maintaining trust
Our aim is to help you reach mastery in skull base, or vascular neurosurgery, so that you can perform complex cases with autonomy and clarity of purpose.


• Theoretical and practical knowledge related to Skull Base Neurosurgery and / or Neurovascular Surgery.
• Appropriate technical and operative skills
• Clinical skills and judgement
• Generic professional and leadership skills
• An understanding of the values and responsibilities that underpin Skull Base Neurosurgery and /or Neurovascular Surgery.
• The specific attributes needed to be a Skull base surgeon or/and neurovascular surgeon
• A commitment to their on-going personal and professional development and practice using reflective practice and educational processes having as high priority developing the successful candidate as a trainer and future leader.
• An understanding and respect for the multi-professional nature of the care of patients with skull base and/or neurovascular pathologies
• An understanding of the responsibilities of being an employee in the UK NHS
  
  Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow to work within Neurosurgery. The Fellowship will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which is one of the busiest hospitals in the UK. In the financial year 2022/23 the Neurosurgery department treated: 246-day cases, 1052: elective cases and 1235: emergencies. Outpatient activity over the same period included: 4426 new and 14,700 follow-up patients.
The hospital has been designated as a level one trauma unit, leading to increased emergency work in the department. QEHB already has special expertise in the management of all forms of trauma, through its links with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) located in the hospital. There are 16 neurosurgical trainees and an in-house fellowship in spinal surgery. However, currently there are no Royal College recognised fellowships in cranial neurosurgery. The Queen Elizabeth vestibular schwannoma (VS) service has the highest number of VS referral in England according to VS National Audit. The Skull base service provides approximately 100 transphenoidal approaches for pituitary, 50 craniotomies for anterior skull base, and 50 craniotomies for lateral skull base cases per year. The neurovascular service provides 30-40 open neurovascular procedures (aneurysms, AVMs, cranial dAVFs), 250-300 endovascular neurovascular procedures and 150-200 mechanical thrombectomy procedures., We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives. UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work. University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

£70,425 a year ST6-8 equivalent, plus allowances for Tier 2 on-call rota