Trust Doctor ST3+ in Neurosurgery

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical staffing (to include key research/practice interests)

1. The post provides excellent experience in acute and elective cranial and spinal neurosurgery and is suitable for those pursuing a career in neurosurgery
2. The post is not recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons for Training purposes. Seminars are organised for further postgraduate teaching and there are opportunities to take study leave.
3. There are weekly MDT meetings with Neurovascular, Neuro-oncology, Skull Base and Pituitary Complex Spine, CSF Disorders, Craniofacial and Functional subspecialties.

3 Key areas of responsibilities

• Provide high quality care to patients in Neurosurgery

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC registration.

o To develop and maintain the competencies necessary to carry out the duties required of the post.

o To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

• Research, teaching and training

o Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.

o To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by Clinical Director.

• Performance management

o To work with medical, nursing, allied health and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.

Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates

Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

• Governance

o To participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

o To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.

o To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the divisional director/clinical director

o To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

• Leadership and team working

o To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national initiatives.

o To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Imperial College London as required.

o To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.

o To adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.

4 Research opportunities

The quality of the Colleges research has been judged consistently to be of the highest international standard and the proportion of income from research grants and contracts is one of the highest of any UK university.

The concentration of research in science, engineering and medicine gives the College a unique and internationally distinctive research presence. Interdisciplinary working is fostered at the College through its institutes and centres, which include the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Energy Futures lab. Their strength lies in the expertise drawn together from across Imperial to tackle some of the worlds greatest problems.

Imperials enterprise culture ensures that discoveries in the lab are quickly translated to the market place. The technology transfer company Imperial Innovations draws upon a pipeline of technology emanating from Imperials research. In 2006-07 the company had equity holdings in 74 companies. The College made 366 invention disclosures to the company during the same period.

5 Teaching opportunities

The Colleges overall educational aim is to ensure a stretching and exhilarating learning experience. While maintaining its traditional emphasis on single honours degree courses, Imperial also aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their experience through courses relevant to student and employer needs.

In its MSc. course provision, the College seeks to provide a wide range of specialist courses in areas in which it has particular expertise. Many of those offered by non-medical departments emphasise the valuable interaction between scientific/technological training and industrial experience, whilst those offered by the medical departments focus on subjects at the interface between basic science and medicine and on specialist education for doctors and other health professionals in training. In addition, the Colleges wide range of PhD programmes reflect its aim of pursuing research at the frontiers of scientific, engineering, management and medical knowledge and the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of this research.

The Centre for Educational Development raises and consolidates the profile of learning, teaching and educational development throughout the College. Newly-appointed non-clinical lecturers will be expected to develop and expand their teaching skills, and there are many learning and teaching activities for more experienced staff.

On 1 October 2011, the Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine merged with the Graduate School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, to form a single entity. The merged Graduate School is the focus of postgraduate education and research and maintains, enhances and monitors quality, disseminates best practice, while initiating and developing new programmes, particularly those with an interdisciplinary slant. It also has quality assurance responsibilities for the two non-faculty departments of Humanities and the Business School.

The Colleges teaching quality is audited regularly, both internally and externally. Recent external audit found teaching quality to be of a high standard.

Duties will include acute tasks, attending clinics, regular neurosurgical theatre, peri-operative care of patients in collaboration with SpRs from other specialties as well as data collection for department and clinical trials.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit to the Unit, please contact Mr Kevin Tsang, Consultant Neurosurgeon on kevin.tsang@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS
• Full GMC Registration with licence
• Operative experience in Neurosurgery
• MRCS

Desirable

• FRCS

Language

Essential

• Are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfill the job requirements

Academic achievements including research/publications

Essential

• Evidence of achievement appropriate to appointment level at HHNT

Teaching, Training & Audit

Essential

• Experience of teaching and training

Desirable

• Experience of auditing surgical results

Relevant experience in specialty/ sub specialty

Essential

• Experience or aptitude for clinical activity appropriate to job description

Clinical Skills

Essential

• Appropriate to job description

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF

Employer's website

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)