Fellowship in Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery

Job summary

This prestigious Fellowship in Thyroid/Parathyroid Surgery is available as a fixed termappointment for 12 months from October 2025. The post is a full time based at Lister Hospital inStevenage and is designed to provide a platform for a post CCT surgeon to make the next steptowards working as a consultant.

The fellowship is approved by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) and the BritishAssociation of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons ( BAETS).

This is an excellent opportunity within the ENT unit at the Trust for the appointee to further theirinterest and surgical knowledge in this area. The ENT department performs the largest number ofthyroid/parathyroid cases in Hertfordshire/ Bedfordshire and is a national lead in continuous intraoperative nerve monitoring. It has very close links with the large endocrinology department andsub- regional renal unit at the hospital. It is expected that the successful candidate will gaincompetency in all of Head and Neck surgery, particularly thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

The hospital has an active robotic programme, with the ENT department performing regular transoral robotic surgery as well as Robotic Assisted Thyroidectomy. We expect the fellow to beassisting in the head and neck robotic programme.

Main duties of the job

o Participate in thyroid/parathyroidMDT and specialist Thyroid and neck lump clinicso Promotion of and participation in teaching within the departmento Flexible cover of the clinical commitments of the departmento Active involvement in research and to continue to maintain and update own professional knowledge

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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