ENT Head & Neck Clinical Fellow
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train.The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
The ENT department is seeking self-motivated enthusiastic candidates to apply for the role of ENT Head & Neck Clinical Fellow.
We welcome applications from individuals who are excited to work in a thriving research collaborative, established between Professor Emma King (UHD and University Hospitals Southampton) for laboratory based research projects with Professor Gareth Thomas and the Experimental Pathology Group at the University of Southampton.
The unit is a training unit attracting positive feedback from NTN registrars in the Wessex deanery as well as national and international fellows within Head & Neck surgery as well as interventional laryngology.
The UHD ENT department sits within the Head & Neck Directorate as part of the Surgical Care Group. The service provides elective and emergency services at Poole hospital with Outpatient activity across both Royal Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals.
The ENT multi-disciplinary team consists of 6 Consultants Surgeons, middle-grades, registrars, junior doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, H&N Cancer Nurse Specialists and specialist nurses within the Head & Neck ward.
We are seeking collaborative team players who can work well together with our current ENT Team and more generally allied surgical and medical colleagues to continue to move the department forward and support patient care.
Main duties of the job
The fellow will support the Head and Neck cancer service preparing and presenting at the Head and Neck multidisciplinary team meeting, Head and Neck clinics and Head and Neck theatres. Other days are ringfenced for research commitments. Theatre cases range from diagnostic panendoscopies to transoral tumour resections (laser or robot) to laryngopharyngectomies.
The successful candidate will take part in the middle grade on-call rota and play an active role supporting their junior doctor colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
The Head & Neck ward will move from Poole Hospital to Bournemouth Hospital in January 2026. Complex surgery will then take place at Bournemouth Hospital from this point. Candidates will work across site with activities both on the Planned Care Site (Poole Hospital) and emergency work and complex work on the Emergency Site (Bournemouth Hospital).
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download the attached job description and person specification for further details on this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience at ST4+ level in ENT or Equivalent.
- Evidence of involvement in audit & research projects
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Eligibility or valid/relevant GMC Registration
Skills
Essential criteria- Meet the requirements of the GMC’s Good Medical Practice.
- An enthusiasm and willingness towards learning
- Excellent IT skills
- Coding and Programming
- Previous wet-lab experience
Please note:
Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.