Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7496487-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Headington
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Functional Neurosurgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Applications are invited for the above substantive consultant post in the Department of Neurosurgery based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country and enjoys a national reputation for the quality of its services in healthcare.
The successful applicant will join a team of currently 13 substantive Adult and 4 Paediatric Neurosurgery Consultants. The focus of the post will be the management of Emergency and Elective Neurosurgical patients in Functional Neurosurgery. Appropriate administrative support will be provided for this post.
The Neurological Surgery Department has Academic and Clinical Training programmes. The applicant will be involved in training Specialist Registrars and Functional Neurosurgical Fellows (in a Royal College of Surgeons of England accredited Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship).
Applicants must hold full registration and licence to practice with the GMC, and must be on the GMC Specialist Register via Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or CESR (CP) (proposed CCT/CESR date must be within 6 months of interview), or CESR/Portfolio pathway, or alternative routes to specialist registration. Applicants should have subspeciality fellowship level training in Functional Neurosurgery.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will take part in a 1:12 non-resident on call rota with prospective cover, and when on call will be required to be within ten miles by road from the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The postholder’s duties will be to provide inpatient and outpatient care for neurosurgical patients both emergency and elective, and subspecialty functional neurosurgery patients. Close working relationships with other members of the neurosciences team will be necessary. In functional neurosurgery this includes all members of the functional neurosurgery MDTs – movement disorders neurologists, pain physicians, psychologists, and Specialist Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
The post-holder will have equal access to clinics, theatres, junior doctor and administrative support and office space.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for further information regarding duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with licence to practise
- FRCS (SN) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- On GMC specialist register
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive training and experience in general adult neurosurgery. Fellowship (s) in Functional Neurosurgery.
- Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Research degree
- Previous experience at Consultant Neurosurgeon level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team of professionals
- Effective administrative and time management skills.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to Clinical Governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Experience of conducting clinical audits
Desirable criteria
- Experience in wide range of Neuromodulation techniques
- Previous experience at Consultant Neurosurgeon level
- Leadership qualification
- Evidence of participation in clinical audits
- Presentation at scientific meetings relevant to neuromodulation
- Peer reviewed publications
- Evidence of participation in muti-disciplinary meetings
- Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- James Fitzgerald
- Job title
- Consultant Neurosurgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 234838
- Additional information
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact
Mr Murtuza Sikander, Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe (email: [email protected]),
Mr George Hadjipavlou, Clinical Director for Neurosciences ([email protected]) or
Mr James Fitzgerald, Consultant Neurosurgeon ([email protected]).
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