Clinical Fellow SpR Level in Trauma & Orthopaedics - Spines

at  North Bristol NHS Trust

(FULL TIME)

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow Speciality Registrar level in Spinal Surgery. Two posts to start February 2024 and a third post to start August 2024.
This post will be based at the Brunel Building, at the newly built Southmead Hospital.
This post is specifically aimed at Neurosurgeons and Orthopaedic Surgeons in their final year of training. For Orthopaedic Surgeons there is the possibility of participating in the orthopaedic on-call rota, for Neurosurgeons there may be provision to join the neurosurgery on-call rota. Neurosurgical trainees will be considered for this role.
The overall objective of the fellowship is for the successful candidate to be able to undertake spinal surgery to the level of a consultant by the end of the fellowship.
Please review attached job description for all main duties/
North Bristol NHS Trust is a progressive and ambitious teaching and research organisation, and a specialist regional centre for major trauma, neurosciences, plastics and burns, orthopaedics and renal services. With a turnover of £550m and 8,000 staff, our clinical teams have built a strong reputation for exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
Work of the Department
The Bristol Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery Team is the regional tertiary referral centre for complex spinal surgery. The team providing adult care at Brunel Building as part of the Avon Orthopaedic Centre (AOC), which is the largest specialist elective orthopaedic centre in the Southwest. The team provide paediatric care at the Bristol Children’s Hospital and work closely with the neurosurgical team to provide specialist spinal trauma support as part of the Major Trauma Centre for the Severn region based out of both Brunel Building (adults) and Bristol Children’s Hospital (paediatric).
All conditions including spinal deformity are treated in both adults and children. There are close links with the Neurosurgery department and pain service with a large tertiary referral practice.
The orthopaedic spinal team work as part of a Trauma and elective Orthopaedic service provided by a team of 39 North Bristol Trust and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Consultants, as part of a Bristol wide centralised orthopaedic service delivered at the AOC. The AOC consists of 2 trauma and 6 elective operating theatres and 16 outpatient rooms from which all elective, specialist and fracture clinics are delivered. The service is delivered through a 124 beds in Brunel Building. Within this service footprint the orthopaedic spinal service has a dedicated theatre and bed base from which complex spinal services are delivered. Elective outpatient clinics, pre-operative assessments and spinal fracture follow up clinic is based with the orthopaedic outpatient area which is adjacent to imaging service

Please refer the Job description for details