Job vacancy: Locum Cons Neurosurgeon (Paeds/Adult Spine Deformity & Neurotrauma), St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting

Job summary

Main area: Neurosurgery
Grade: Locum Consultant
Contract: Locum: 12 months (10 PA Job Plan)
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (oncall)
Job ref: 200-SNCT-712839-7830389-AU

Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Georges NHS Trust
Town: Tooting
Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/03/2026 23:59

Locum Cons Neurosurgeon (Paeds/Adult Spine Deformity & Neurotrauma)

Locum Consultant

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Planned activities for this role will be scheduled on a rolling four-week timetable. The job plan provided is indicative and will be reviewed with the successful candidate prior to their start date and will also be part of the wider departmental job planning process. It will be reviewed annually as part of Trust Job planning.

This is representative of the job plan that will be offered but the details are subject to change prior to commencement. A total of 10 PAs (9 DCC and 1 SPA) will be offered including on call activity (see below indicative job plan with SPA. This job plan is open to discussion with the successful candidate.

Day	Activity	Time	Category	Worked in weeks/frequency	Num/Yr	PA
Monday	IP Theatre	08:30-20:00	DCC	4	10.5	0.83
	OPD	09:0012:00	DCC	1, 3	21	0.46
	OPD	13:00-17:00	DCC	1, 3	21	0.625
Tuesday	IP Theatre	08:30-20:00	DCC	3	10.5	0.83
Wednesday	Major Trauma Meeting	08:30-09:00	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	0.125
	WR	09:00-09:30	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	0.125
	Degenerative Spine MDT	10:00-12:00	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	0.5
	OPD	13:00-17:00	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	1.25
Thursday
Friday	Complex Spine MDT	08:00-08:0	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	0.125
	Major Trauma Meeting	08:30-09:00	DCC	1, 2, 3, 4	42	0.125
	Complex Spine MDT	09:00-10:00	DCC	1, 3	21	0.125
	WR	10:00-10:30	DCC	1,3	21	0.06
	IP Theatre	09:00-20:00	DCC	2, 4	21	1.60
Saturday
Sunday
Flexible Activities	Maintaining Good Medical Practice		SPA		42	1
Flexible Activities	Triage		DCC		42	0.25
On-call	General Neurosurgery			1:14		1.03
On-call	Complex Spine			1:9		1.01
Total						10

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Full registration with GMC with a licence to practise
Postgraduate medical qualification in FRCS(NS)
UK Specialist Register or within 6 months of joining the specialist register

Desirable criteria

Higher academic qualification e.g. MSc

Clinical experience

Essential criteria

Formal fellowship (post-FRCS) in complex spine surgery in a centre of excellence
Formal fellowship (post-FRCS) in paediatric spine deformity surgery in a centre of excellence
Paediatric spinal deformity training and experience
Adult spinal deformity training and experience

Desirable criteria

Training in Endoscopic Spinal Surgery

Management and leadership experience

Essential criteria

Ability to contribute to the delivery of an efficient and smooth-running specialist service
Ability to organise and manage out-patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
Evidence of involvement in audit and continuous improvement

Desirable criteria

Evidence of governance activity and commitment

Teaching experience

Essential criteria

Experience of clinical supervision of F1-ST8
Ability to teach clinical and operative skills

Desirable criteria

Experience of teaching basic skills to undergraduates

Research experience

Essential criteria

Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical and surgical problems

Desirable criteria

Presentations at national conferences

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Ms Meriem Amarouche

Job title

Neurosurgery Care Group Lead

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

00000000000

Additional information

Also contact the following consultants

Jason Bernard

[email protected]

Vino Siva

[email protected]

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