Senior Clinical Fellow in Pain Medicine & Neuromodulation

We are offering a Clinical Fellowship in Pain Management at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An advanced training post working under supervision of the consultants in the pain clinics within the Guys and St Thomas trust.

The post is suitable for an individual who has completed either a specialist registrar training and gained accreditation in their chosen specialty or a specialist registrar on a year of absence from their own training programme.

The post holder would have completed basic pain medicine training previously, but would wish to obtain more specialist knowledge before taking on a consultant post with a major commitment to pain management. The post holder would be looking for more experience in complex chronic non-malignant ( including spinal, neuropathic, headache and facial, pelvic, and urological) and cancer pains.

The post holder will work jointly with the 11 clinical consultants and multidisciplinary allied professionals evaluating and treating patients, taking more responsibility as their tenure in the post progressed.

The post involves gaining great experience of the complex cases referred to St Thomas for neuromodulation, as well as outpatient assessments in clinic, day surgery procedures, inpatient liaison work with medical and surgical inpatients and care of the residential patients attending the INPUT programme. One half day per week is allocated for clinical research., 1. Toassess new patients referred to the pain management centre under supervision of the consultant staff.
2. To liaise with the clinical psychological staff about the suitability of patients referred for attendance at INPUT or for other forms of investigation and treatment.
3. To review patients in outpatient clinics and some inpatients
4. To correspond with referrers and other relevant parties regarding treatment plans and proposed therapy for their patients.
5. To perform procedures in the day surgery unit
6. To participate in audit and research

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.