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Main area
Specialist Surgery
Grade
MN37
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
392-MS027-PNI
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£37,068 - £57,570 +£2,162 LW per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/05/2024 23:59

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Peripheral Nerve Injury Fellow

MN37

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

The Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit at the RNOH was founded over 50 years ago and is the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom and treats all aspects of surgical disorders of the peripheral nerve injury of the brachial and lumbo-sacral plexus including pain management and rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

Please note that the timetable is not indicative and subject to change based on the needs of the service. The post holder is expected to be flexible with the timetable varies over a 6-week period.

The timetable below is a broad overview.

Monday AM Theatre
PM Theatre

Tuesday AM Outpatients (Bolsover)
PM Outpatients (Bolsover)

Wednesday AM Theatre
PM Theatre

Thursday
AM Admin / Research
PM Admin / Research

Friday AM Theatre
PM Theatre

Working for our organisation

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to develop knowledge both clinically and surgically over the 12-month fellowship. The fellow will also develop sufficient knowledge and leadership in order to take a leading role as a consultant in a department dealing with complex peripheral nerve injury surgery. During the course of the fellowship emphasis will be given to many facets of the job not just the technical aspects of surgery and performance of outpatient clinics but also on team working,
coordination, and management including discharge planning etc.
The aim of the fellowship is to provide training and research opportunities in PNI surgery over a 12 month period. This fellowship will provide exposure to all aspects of the management of patients undergoing complex PNI surgery. There will be no on-call duties. The fellow will work alongside all 4 PNI Consultants. The post holder alongside the consultant body will be expected to supervise the junior members of the team, as well as attend and help with the out-patient clinics. They will also be first assistant during surgery. Whilst this is a non-training post there will be opportunities to operate according to your skills.
It is anticipated that the post holder will be post MRCS and core surgical training or equivalent. The delivery of high quality patient care is essential and contribution towards the unit’s research and audit activity is actively encouraged.

The role will involve working at our Bolsover outpatient facility

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with GMC
  • FRCS (Tr & Orth)
  • Postgraduate Degree
Desirable criteria
  • Post CCT date

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Elective orthopaedics
  • Experience in PNI surgery at SpR level
  • Already developed an interested in PNI surgery.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of MDT working
  • Research with higher degree ideally in relevant specialty

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An understanding of the major risk factors for PNI surgery at a population level and at the level of the individual

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dawn Lewinson
Job title
Operations manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 909 5822
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