Senior Clinical Fellow in Neuro-Oncology
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Job overview
Applications are invited for a Royal College of Surgeons approved fellowship for surgical training in Neuro-oncology at Southmead Hospital . This post is full time with on-call commitments at middle grade level, and is available initially for 12 months duration from April 2024 extendable by mutual agreement.
The post holder will work in the award winning Brunel building at Southmead Hospital, and will benefit from the well-developed multi-disciplinary team and state of the art facilities including advanced neuronavigation, a navigated intra-operative MRI suite, intra-operative neurophysiology, and an anaesthetic and nursing team who are well rehearsed in complex Neuro-oncology awake surgery. The department treats a wide range of complex cranial and spinal Neuro-Oncology caseload from an adult catchment population in excess of 2.5 million across the southwest of England. The successful applicant will be a senior neurosurgical trainee who is comfortable with basic elective and emergency neurosurgery and wishes to pursue Neuro-oncology as a sub-specialist interest.
This fellowship post has been accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons towards sub specialty training in neuro-oncology. Further details of the post and the department can be learnt by downloading the job description and person specification.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work within the Oncology team which consists of 4 consultant neursurgeons who between them undertake all aspects of routine and complex neuro-oncology surgery. He/She will attend the weekly neuro-oncology MDT, atleast one weekly clinic in addition to other ad-hoc clinics, 1 -2 theatre days per week and other admin work. Depending on their interest they can spend time with the clinical neuro-oncologists at the Bristol Oncology centre attending oncology clinics and planning gamma knife radiosurgery. There is a regular oncology journal club which the appointee will be expected to lead and a regular oncology M&M meeting which the appointee will be expected to take responsibility for.
They will be working closely with the second RCS Oncology fellow already in the department.