# Rhinology Fellow

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** John Radcliffe Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Ear, Nose and Throat
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £76,582 per annum
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T13:00:53.748Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/ENT_Rhinology/ENT_Rhinology-v8159446
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8159446?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ouh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Rhinology Fellow

Speciality: Ear nose and Throat

Fixed term for 12 months

The main ENT Department is located in the West Wing at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. It provides emergency care and wide range of general and sub-specialty elective inpatient work for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire regions. Day surgery cases are treated in the West Wing, Churchill head and neck unit, The Horton, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and High Wycombe.

### Main duties of the job

The department prides itself on being a regional tertiary referral Centre for head and neck oncology, skull base surgery and neurology, pediatrics ENT, specialist rhinology and otology including cochlear implants and bone anchored hearing aids. It is the hub of the Regional SpR Training Program. It is an extremely well supported department with ample opportunity for learning and development and successful applicants will join a well-respected and recognized department and team.

You will be expected to attend daily ward rounds, undertake ward work and participate in holding the on-call bleep. You will have the opportunity to sit in outpatient clinics and attend theatre to improve and develop knowledge and understanding. You will be expected to attend and contribute to monthly academic sessions, MDT and clinical governance. The specialist registrars are heavily involved in the management of the junior clinical staff and aim to support on-call duties and clinician development very closely.

The work of the Department is supported by a full range of support services including audiology, speech & language therapy, an aural care team, pre-clerking nurses, head & neck cancer nursing team, dieticians, pediatrics tracheotomy nurse specialists etc.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your role will involve the following:

- Inpatient care
- Providing medical management for all ENT patients at the John Radcliffe hospital
- Emergency ENT service
- Including 1 in 8 on-call covering the ENT SHO bleep, managing referrals internally (from A&E and other wards) and externally (from primary care and referring hospitals)
- Assessing and managing patients on the GP Referral Unit (acute ENT referrals)
- Outpatient care
- Nasal fracture clinic
- General ENT clinics 2 per week
- Specialist rhinology clinic 1 per week (One stop Sinusitis / Transcranial Trauma/Combined Airway Clinic
- Theatres
- 2 all day lists per week in rhinology with the opportunity to attend joint cases at other times with ophthalmology/plastics/neurosurgery. These will be shared with the SpR and it is expected that the fellow will do some teaching.

In addition, there will be opportunities to be involved in the following for educational and training purposes:

- Departmental teaching sessions
- Clinical Governance meetings
- Audit, Research and Quality Improvement

There is plenty of support to participate in projects within the department.

INDICATIVE TIMETABLE

- Shift | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri
- am | Clinic/Theatre | Theatre | Clinic | Admin/Research | Clinic/Theatre (alt weeks)
- pm | Clinic/Theatre | Theatre | Skull Base MDT | Clinic | Clinic/Theatre (alt weeks)

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent leadership skills
- Competent in uncomplicated FESS/Septal Surgery
- Managing ENT emergencies e.g. tracheostomy, neck wounds, epistaxis
- Teaching ability Basic Surgical techniques
- Evidence of audit & research publications in surgery

### Experience

**Essential**

- Completed at least ST 6 or equivalent higher surgical training in Otolaryngology

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MRCS ENT/DOHNS

## Documents

- [rhinology fellow jd 27 (pdf, 472.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460043)
- [rhinology fellow person specification (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460044)

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