Senior Clinical Fellow in ENT
Job overview
The Consultants support the team in the delivery of the routine ENT surgery workload and share duties with the current team of consultants for the provision of ENT surgical services for the local population. The department offers a full Head and Neck and Thyroid cancer service, delivered by two specialist Head and Neck surgeons and two specialist Thyroid surgeon within the Trust, offering both Transoral Robotic and Transoral Endoscopic surgery.Regular anterior skull base list jointly with neurosurgery. The service is supported by the full range of allied surgical specialties including Reconstructive Plastic surgeons, Maxillofacial surgeons, and Neurosurgical and Cardiothoracic surgeons.
Main duties of the job
As a senior fellow, you will be expected to form part of our junior team, working on a rota with a mixture of clinic and theatre. Training and teaching junior colleagues will be an essential part of a senior fellow. Leading ward rounds, requesting investigations/treatment for patients are all involved within this role.The successful candidate is expected to participate in all the other on-going activities of the department including audit, research projects and to attend various departmental meetings and teaching sessions (MDTs, Audit meetings, M&M, ward and formal teaching).
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For More information on this vacancy please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria- FRCS (ORL-HNS) or equivalent qualification
- Valid ALS certificate
- Postgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD,
- Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
Professional Registration
Essential criteria- Full Registration with the GMC
- On GMC specialist register
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria- Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria- Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
- Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria- Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines