Senior Spinal Clinical Fellow

This is a fixed term, 12 months Spinal Fellowship who will be based at Charing Cross and St. Mary’s Hospital. You will join a multidisciplinary team of Consultants, Specialty doctor and associate specialists, Specialist trainees, GP trainees, Clinical Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and Pharmacists who work in Neurosurgery. The spinal fellows are responsible for the spinal on-call service from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday, 1 week every 4 weeks (1:4 rota) at St Mary’s Hospital. This includes daily ITU and Major Trauma Ward rounds, managing the referrals coming from the district general hospitals of the North West London region and assessing the acute spinal patients including patient with metastatic cord compression referred via the oncology pathway. Clinical duties do not include an out-of-hours service and therefore this job does not come with a salary out-of-hours on-call banding. For the remaining weeks the fellow is expected to attend the elective service (theatre and out-patient clinic) at Charing Cross and/or St. Mary’s Hospitals

The Imperial Spinal Surgery Fellowship is dedicated to the advancements of the theory and practice of spinal surgery and is based at the Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospital sites. The Fellows will form part of Spinal team and be supervised by Mr Russo, Mr Kalsi, Mr Ulbricht, Mr Ibrahim, Mr Kareem, Mr Tsang, Mr Lee and Mr Eseonu.

The Spinal Unit covers a wide catchment area across northwest London providing elective, emergency, simple and complex spinal reconstruction surgery while also acting as a tertiary referral centre outside this region.

A range of spine disorders, including degenerative pathologies, spine emergencies, tumour resection, and reconstruction surgery in the cervical, thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbar spine are treated.

The Spinal Fellow should be familiar with the basic principles of evaluation and treatment of the spinal patients. They will gain experience in the exposure of the entire spine including anterior, posterior and lateral approaches, including use of the operating microscope and minimally invasive techniques.

Weekly timetable:

Day

AM

PM

Monday

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Elective List at CXH

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Elective List at CXH

Tuesday

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Spinal Clinic

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

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Spinal Clinic

Wednesday

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Trauma List at SMH

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Spine Fracture Clinic at SMH

Thursday

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Elective Spinal List

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Elective Spinal List

Friday

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

Admin - Education

Oncall (1:4 week rota)

or

MDTs - Education

Applicants must have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate for effective medical communication with patients and colleagues demonstrated by one of the following:

Information Management

1. Liaise with other Departments within the Hospital, for example the wards, other specialities, the Waiting List Office, Medical Records, Outpatients and IT and to ensure that the Department interfaces efficiently with them.

2. Maintain administrative systems (electronic and manual). This includes managing an accurate and up-to-date appointments diary, scheduling and planning the Senior Management Team and Medical Team future engagements including organising meetings, collating appropriate papers and gathering information in relation to the specific meetings.

3. Use, maintain and update the Trust’s CERNER system.

4. To use IT templates and mail merge as required in order to generate letters.

5. The taking and transcribing of formal minutes for meetings.

6. Typing and data entry for Consultants and Managers using Microsoft packages and Departmental IT systems.

4. General Responsibilities