Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 356-25-7005076
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hull Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 PA PR
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Skull Base and Vascular Neurosurgery
Locum Consultant
Job overview
The department of Neurosurgery is part of the Neuroscience Care Group which includes as well Neurology, Stroke Medicine.
ÌýThis post is for Locum Consultant Neurosurgeon with special interest in Vascular Neurosurgery and Skull Base.
ÌýThe post holder is required to support inpatient and outpatient Neurosurgery services and will play a critical role in delivering Neurosurgery for Hull, the Yorkshire & Humber region and North East Lincolnshire. The Service treats patients from Hull, Scarborough, Bridlington, York, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Louth and Doncaster.
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Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to provide a regional Neurosurgical service to patients with neurological disorders and to develop an interest in a specialist field of cranial vascular and skull base Neurosurgery. The post is a temporary post with a view to look at a substantive appointee in the future.
ÌýThe appointee will be expected to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to them at the Neurosurgical centre.Ìý ÌýThe holder of the post will work in team with other consultants with subspecialty interest in vascular and skull base neurosurgery.
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Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Success in Intercollegiate specialty examination or overseas equivalent
- • Registered in the Specialist Register with GMC
- • CCT in Neurosurgery
Desirable criteria
- • Postgraduate thesis
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Neurosurgery
- • Skull base and vascular neurosurgery interest, fellowship and experience (Please submit logbook)
- • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- • Ability to operate independently both neurovascular and skull base cases
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to manage neurovascular and skull base cases independently
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to advise and lead on efficient and smooth running of specialist service and Neurovascular/Skull Base MDT
- • Ability to organise and manage out patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
- • Ability to manage and lead surgical firm
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to manage and lead specialist unit, MDT and working parties as appropriate
- • Experience of audit management
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of supervising FY and SHO’s
- • Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- • Experience of supervising SpR’s
- • Ability to supervise postgraduate research
Research Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems
Desirable criteria
- • Post graduate degree with Research, publication in referred journals
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work in a team
- • Good interpersonal skills
- • Enquiring, critical approach to work
- • Caring attitude to patients
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GP’s nurses and other agencies
- • Commitment to continuing medical education
Desirable criteria
- • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr M Danciut
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 607877
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