Clinical Fellow in Oral Maxillo-Facial Surgery

at  Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The position advertised is full-time for 12 months, subject to renewal and are based purely at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. There are no on-call duties involved.
The working week will include both Adult and Paediatric activities; clinics, attending GA/LA Minor oral surgery and Consultant theatre sessions, ward rounds, and admin duties.
The appointment is intended for a clinical fellow doctor will work as a part of the team with Consultants, Associate Specialty Doctor and Staff Associate Specialist, in surgery, to cover inpatient, outpatient and day case Oral and Maxillo-facial services.
The sessions covered will include consultation clinics, day care general and local anaesthesia sessions and in-patient GA lists (clinics and surgical lists under supervision by senior clinicians)
The OMFS department at Homerton carries out a huge volume of work yearly.
Candidates can expect to achieve hands on experience in huge number of minor oral surgical procedures. There is opportunity to receive training in procedures under Intra-venous training.
All manner of dento-alveolar pathology, jaw cysts, Salivary gland pathology, skin cancers, TMJ disorders, head & neck masses, oral medicine is treated by the department.
No on-call duties to cover. Maxillo-facial trauma and head and neck oncology treatment are treated at different centres.
The post holder will be involved in a monthly departmental meeting during which teaching sessions are also arranged. There is a separate monthly audit session at which attendance is obligatory.
Some flexibility of timetables will be necessary to ensure inpatient care and urgent inpatient and A&E referrals are attended to.
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care trust which provides hospital and community health services for Hackney, the city and surrounding communities. The Trust provides a full range of adult, older people’s and children’s services across medical and surgical specialties.
The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxio-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.
The Trust have earned a reputation for the quality of training offered and are recognised as one of the top recruiters to high quality research studies in the UK with particular interest in neonatal, sexual health and respiratory medicine. We are also recognised as innovators in embracing methods and systems that promise better and safer patient care.
The number of staff directly employed by the Trust in terms of full-time equivalent (FTE) was at over 3,800 FTE in 2020/21. Excluded from these figures are pre- and postgraduate health care practitioners who were placed for training, bank and agency employees, staff holding honorary contracts and contracted auxiliary services personnel.
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