Senior Spinal Clinical Fellow

This is a fixed term, 12 months Spinal Fellowship who will be based at Charing Cross and St. Mary's Hospital. You will join a multidisciplinary team of Consultants, Specialty doctor and associate specialists, Specialist trainees, GP trainees, Clinical Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and Pharmacists who work in Neurosurgery. The spinal fellows are responsible for the spinal on-call service from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday, 1 week every 4 weeks (1:4 rota) at St Mary's Hospital. This includes daily ITU and Major Trauma Ward rounds, managing the referrals coming from the district general hospitals of the North West London region and assessing the acute spinal patients including patient with metastatic cord compression referred via the oncology pathway. Clinical duties do not include an out-of-hours service and therefore this job does not come with a salary out-of-hours on-call banding. For the remaining weeks the fellow is expected to attend the elective service (theatre and out-patient
clinic) at Charing Cross and/or St. Mary's Hospitals, The Imperial Spinal Surgery Fellowship is dedicated to the advancements of the theory and practice of spinal surgery and is based at the Charing Cross and St Mary's Hospital sites. The Fellows will form part of Spinal team and be supervised by Mr Russo, Mr Kalsi, Mr Ulbricht, Mr Ibrahim, Mr Kareem, Mr Tsang, Mr Lee and Mr Eseonu.

The Spinal Unit covers a wide catchment area across northwest London providing elective, emergency, simple and complex spinal reconstruction surgery while also acting as a tertiary referral centre outside this region.

A range of spine disorders, including degenerative pathologies, spine emergencies, tumour resection, and reconstruction surgery in the cervical, thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar spine are treated.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Depending on experience £37,068 -£57,570 per annum plus London Weighting