Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery F2-ST2

Job summary

This post has neither Royal College or Postgraduate approval for training.The post is educationally sound and well supported, with excellent opportunities for gaining experience in the management of critically ill neurosurgical patients. Applicants must ensure they are aware of the implications to their career plans when applying for this post .

Main duties of the job

Clinical fellows will rotate between ward based duties as well as some operating theatre time and Neuro Critical Care duties. This necessitates close liaison and cooperative, flexible working with the other neuroscience junior staff and nurse practitioners. Your main role will be to consolidate the medical supervision and safety of care of the ward-based neurosurgical patients at Southmead Hospital.

The post-holder will be available to undertake teaching sessions for medical students and junior doctors as required. In certain circumstances you may be required to cover a colleague's clinical duties in order that they may deliver teaching sessions.

The postholder will also be involved in audit, supervision of junior staff, research and administration as necessary.

About us

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region, and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 350,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.

The Trust provides medical, surgical, neonatal and maternity care for its local population of approximately a million people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The Trust also provides regional, regional services in neurosciences, orthopaedics, pathology, plastic surgery and burns, renal medicine and transplant and urology and is the major trauma centre for the West Country.

The Trust recently moved the majority of its acute services to the Brunel building, regarded as one of the most advanced hospital facilities in Europe, on the Southmead Hospital site. At Southmead Hospital, we also have our excellent maternity and women's health services, the Bristol Breast Care Centre and the Trust's Severn Pathology service.

The Department provides a comprehensive elective and emergency neurosurgical service to a population of 2.5 million within the Southwest with additional specialist referrals from the UK and abroad

The Trust has University Teaching status and is associated with both the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England.