Advanced Head & Neck Fellow in ENT

Job overview

Main duties of the job

The fellowship will be primarily head and neck surgical oncology though benign head and neck disease forms part of the workload. Duties are at Nottingham University Hospitals.

The fellow is not expected to take part in the middle grade ‘hot week’ oncall rota though there is an explicit expectation for the fellow to support head and neck emergency cases, and ward patients, during the working day. The fellow may also contribute to the middle tier of out of hours on-call provision.

They will be expected to help with the training of new junior doctors (F2 – ST2) and medical students, when they start in the department.

This post is designed as a post CCT position, but those nearing completion of their specialist training programme or equivalent will be considered. Please note however that this period may not be accredited for training by the Royal College of Surgeons.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

he ENT department is situated in a purpose built PFI building completed in 2000 and shared with Ophthalmology. The department therefore enjoys modern and well equipped facilities. There are thirteen outpatient consulting rooms, with three microscope/treatment rooms and a full range of equipment.

State-of-the-art videoendoscopic equipment has been installed in the outpatient department. There is a 34 bedded inpatient/day case ward for adults, shared with Maxillofacial Surgery and Ophthalmology and a 22 bedded paediatric surgical specialty ward. There are three ENT operating theatres as well as paediatric theatres with a wide range of equipment including CO2 and KTP lasers, and Image Guidance systems.

There is an established Head & Neck Robotic Surgery programme led by Mr Simons & Mr Sethi as well as close working links with Maxillofacial, Thoracic, Vascular & Upper GI Surgery.