Location
Salary
£67325.00
Profession
Medical doctor
Grade
Senior
Deadline
21 Sep 2026
Contract Type
12 months (Fixed term for 12 months)
Posted Date
07 Sep 2026
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Job requirements

Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.

Essential

10 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    General training in Plastic Surgery/OMFS to ST3 level or equivalent. Exposure to craniofacial surgery.

  • Experience

    3 years surgical training

  • Experience

    Ability to make independent decisions, supported by consultant staff

  • Qualifications

    Full GMC with licence to practice

  • Qualifications

    Primary medical degree

  • Qualifications

    MRCS or equivalent

  • Personal Skills

    Good personal and interpersonal skills

  • Personal Skills

    Sufficient leadership, organisational communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of clinical fellow in a large teaching hospital

  • Technical Skills

    Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package

  • Behavioural Skills

    Professional conduct

Desirable

Not listed in the available specification.

Job overview

Craniofacial Fellow Grade: Registrar Specialty: Plastic Surgery Supervising Consultant : Mr D Johnson, Mr G Thomas, Miss R Ching & Mr J Jones Base Hospital : John Radcliffe Hospital GMC requirement : Full registration and licence to practise Fixed term for 12 months

Main duties of the job

Aims and responsibilities:

To gain competency in managing patients with complex craniofacial anomalies. The craniofacial fellow will present craniofacial patients on the ward round and have an up-to-date working knowledge of the condition of all patients. The fellow will prepare and present cases for the radiology multidisciplinary. It is the fellow’s responsibility to ensure that all patients are prepared and clinical investigations obtained in preparation for theatre. They will ensure that all medical records are kept up to-date for inpatients. The fellow will coordinate care between the various multidisciplinary team members. The fellow will complete all craniofacial discharge summaries.

Clinical:

Involvement in the daily management of all craniofacial patients and attendance at outpatient clinics and multi-disciplinary team meetings. The fellow will coordinate and contribute to the training of junior doctors within the craniofacial team. Attendance at all operating lists with training to develop surgical competency in craniofacial surgery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Proposed weekly timetable:

Monday AM: ward round - PM: Theatre Tuesday AM: ward round, MDT Craniofacial clinic - PM: MDT clinic twice monthly Wednesday AM: ward round, MDT Radiology meeting - PM: Outpatient clinic (craniofacial / facial palsy) Thursday AM: Ward round, Theatre - PM: Theatre Friday AM: ward round, craniofacial clinic / monthly CMFOS clinic - PM: research

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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This advert is for Craniofacial Fellow with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, England. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Plastic Surgery role. The advertised salary is £67325.00. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months). The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.

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