Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Prospective 1:5 on-call)
- Job ref
- 411-SUR-26-7798397
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
The paediatric neurosurgical service is both the regional and a supra-regional service. All subspeciality aspects of paediatric neurosurgery can be delivered. We have a state of the art operating theatre with a 3T intraoperative MRI scanner, Renishaw robot and a hybrid theatre
with a cone beam dyna CT (Zeego).
Alder Hey is a nationally designated centre for Paediatric Craniofacial services. The multidisciplinary team is led by Mr Chris Parks and supported by Mr David Richardson (consultant maxillo-facial surgeon), Mr Christian Duncan and Mr Adel Fattah (consultant plastic surgeons)
and Mr Ajay Sinha and Mr Jon Ellenbogen (consultant neurosurgeons(. The team performs more than 100 operative procedures per year.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to work closely with the 7 Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeons and supporting staff as listed above based at Alderhey. There will be multiple opportunities to go to theatre, receive appropriate training in all of the advanced paediatric neurosurgical subspecialties listed above and take part in outpatient activity and MDT’s in neuro oncology, craniofacial, spasticity, spine, epilepsy and fetal CNS anomalies. Post holders will work towards maintaining standards, including audit, as detailed in the Safe & Sustainable Paediatric Neurosurgery Services document
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees.
Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for Craniofacial Surgery and a Centre of Excellence for Paediatric Oncology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopaedics. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and
400 nursing students each year. A child and adolescent mental health service is also provided with an in-patient unit based at the Trust. Recent expansion has seen the provision of additional theatres (there are 13 operating Theatres in total) and the opening of a new Neuro-sciences development.
Alder Hey serves not only the children of Liverpool but is the tertiary referral centre for children from Merseyside, Cheshire, parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales for many sub-specialties of paediatrics. The Trust provides a range of community services including school nursing, home carers and a child development centre. The hospital has over
300 beds, including day beds for surgery, a medical day care unit and Emergency Decision Unit.
A purpose built Education Centre is situated on the hospital site and is available for all postgraduate educational activity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will be expected to work closely with the 7 Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeons and supporting staff as listed above based at Alderhey. There will be multiple opportunities to go to theatre, receive appropriate training in all of the advanced paediatric neurosurgical subspecialties listed above and take part in outpatient activity and MDT’s in neuro-oncology, craniofacial, spasticity, spine, epilepsy and fetal CNS anomalies. Post holders will work towards maintaining standards, including audit, as detailed in the Safe & Sustainable Paediatric Neurosurgery Services document.
Person specification
Application
Essential criteria
- Full Registration and license to practice with GMC
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience in Core specialty
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mr Chris Parks
- Job title
- Consultant Neurosurgeon and Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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