Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Surgery SPR
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (0)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (1 in 8 rota, non resident - BANDING SUPPLEMENT: Band 1A)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-7138139
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £49,909 - £70,425 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Paediatric Surgery Specialty Registrar x 4
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
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
TITLE OF POST: Clinical Fellow Paediatric Surgery
GRADE: Specialist Registrar
SPECIALTY: Paediatric Surgery
REASON FOR VACANCY: Fixed Term Contract
SUPERVISING CONSULTANTS: Eve Coates / Miss K Lakhoo/ Mr A Lee/
Mr. K Ashour
EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR: not applicable
FULL-TIME/PART-TIME: Full Time
BASE HOSPITAL: The Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe
Hospital
WORK PATTERN: 1 in 8 rota, non resident
BANDING SUPPLEMENT: Band 1A
INCLUDES PROSPECTIVE COVER: Yes
There are 7 middle grade posts with training opportunities in acute and elective complex paediatric surgery and one research registrar who takes part in the on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
2. DUTIES OF THE POST
a) Principal Responsibilities
Clinical:
Principle responsibilities of the post holder are to work with the consultants in the day-to-day management of inpatients, outpatients, to assist, advise and supervise junior doctors and to perform administrative duties e.g. discharge summaries, clinic letter, arranging admissions and surgical procedures. The post holder is expected to take part in clinical audit.
Research:
The post holder will be able to declare an interest in performing research in laparoscopic surgery, paediatric surgical oncology or paediatric urology. If this is the case time will be allocated to undertake research.
Working for our organisation
The Department of Paediatric Surgery provides a comprehensive service for children up to 16 years of age for Oxfordshire and is a tertiary referral service for a catchment area of 3 million from Winchester to Kettering, Milton Keynes to Cheltenham for paediatric surgery and paediatric urology.
In the John Radcliffe Hospital there is a 20 bed surgical ward which is shared with orthopaedic surgery. We work closely with neonatal and paediatric intensive care units and high dependency units. A regional Neonatal Surgical Service for the Oxford Region is delivered and currently approximately 200 neonatal surgical emergencies are treated each year. There are close links between paediatric surgery and both, other surgical specialties and paediatric subspecialties including gastro-enterology, oncology, cardiology, neurology and fetal medicine.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Daily Commitment
AM
PM
Monday
Clinical
Clinical
Tuesday
Clinical
Clinical
Wednesday
Off post on call / clinical if not on call Tuesday
Thursday
Clinical
Clinical
Friday
Departmental teaching
Audit
Clinical allocations can be daytime on call, theatre or clinics.
On call: one night per week (Monday – Thursday, 5 out of 8 weeks), Friday night (1 out of 8), weekend (1 out of 8)
This timetable currently reflects the allocations for a clinical fellow who does not wish to perform research. If the post holder decides to pursue research some of the clinical time will be reallocated as research time. The timetable has to be flexible enough to allow short term changes to cover clinical commitments as required.
c) Job Summary (clinical/ administrative)
All registrars are fully supervised and supported at all times. They are expected to:
Participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
Supervise junior doctor’s ward work (including discharge letters)
Conduct routine hand over ward rounds at 7.45am every morning & working ward rounds there-after as well as hand over to the on-call team every evening
Organize and attend theatre lists in discussion with the consultant
Attend outpatient clinics & dictate clinic letters
Be responsible for patient transfers to other hospitals - they must give appropriate & relevant advice to assist in the patient transfer
Take calls from GPs / other hospitals who wish to refer patients
Take initiative to improve continuity & maintain patient care
Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
The on-call is 1in8 with prospective cover. The rota is EWTD compliant but could be reconfigured as a 1in7 with EWTD compliance maintained if necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- Successful completion of MRCS or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience in paediatric surgery (minimum 6 months)
- Logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
- Capacity to operate effectively under pressure
- Awareness of own limitations & when to ask for help
- Capacity to manage time and prioritise workload, balance urgent & important demands
- Capacity to work effectively in a MultiDisciplinary Team
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
- Capacity to communicate effectively & sensitively with others
- Able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
Desirable criteria
- Experience in paediatrics / neonatology
- Experience in laparoscopic surgery
- APLS or PALS or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of active participation in audit
- Evidence of contributing to teaching & learning of others
- Ability to provide complete details of employment history
- Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
Desirable criteria
- Experience in setting up a research projec
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
- Eve Coates
- Job title
- Paediatric Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 231673
- Additional information
for further information please contact Eve.C [email protected]
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