Job overview

We are pleased to be able to advertise for a 1 WTE (40 hours) dermatology clinical fellows to join our experienced dermatology team in Oxford. Located within the Thames Valley, we are the training centre for Thames Valley Specialty Registrars in Dermatology. Oxford is a recognised centre of excellence in numerous areas of dermatology. With one of the highest incidences of melanoma in the UK, we have state of the art surgical, diagnostic and laboratory facilities in a purpose-built unit. We have excellent on-site links with plastic surgery, with a centralised head and neck skin cancer service. We are paediatric dermatology centre of excellence and undertake dedicated paediatric dermatology clinics and Teenage and Young Adolescent Clinics and have close links with paediatrics team. We manage patients with complex medical dermatological conditions and have close links with the rheumatology team including joint clinics and are a specialised centre for a number of area of medical dermatology. We are one of only a few centres in the UK that undertake specialist photosensitivity clinics. We have close links with the allergy team and dermatologist undertaking dedicated allergy clinics including skin prick testing and patch testing. We undertake laser treatments for both adult and paediatric patients. We are keen to recruit a dermatology clinical fellow, who will relish the opportunity of training, working and teaching in this inspirational environment

Main duties of the job

We provide an excellent skin cancer service to the patients of Oxfordshire and beyond. We train all the registrars in the Oxford Rotation at some stage in skin surgery and frequently take them back for advanced training when they are working in other units.  We have trained GPwSIs to develop a commissioned low risk tumour service in the community and train all our GP registrars in basic surgical techniques.  We have trained Australian and New Zealand registrars in surgical fellowships in the past and have offered surgical sabbaticals to a number of consultants from UK, Europe and Russia. Oxford was one of only two UK skin surgery units who were awarded Department of Health funding for a post CCT fellowship in skin surgery for 2009/2010.

There are daily consultant-led skin cancer screening clinics (34 patients: 11x 2 week wait new, 13x routine new and 10x follow-up patients with support from a dermatology StR and an ST1-2 GP trainee or FY1) with parallel minor ops clinics with a consultant, registrar, fellow and/or GP assisting.

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. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. 

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