Senior Clinical Fellow in Head and Neck Surgery

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Clinical Fellow in Head and Neck Surgery
Band: Specialty Registrar
Hours of Work: Full time (+ non-resident on call availability allowance)
Contract: 12 month fixed term appointment
Service Centre/Directorate: Planned Care
Base: Trustwide – Epsom & St Helier Hospitals and St. George’s University Hospital, Tooting
Accountable to: Clinical Lead
Educational Supervisor: Mr Arun Takhar
Contacts:
Mr Arun Takhar a.takhar@nhs.net
Mr Raj Lakhani raj.lakhani@nhs.net

THIS POST

This is a newly created post and we are looking for an enthusiastic clinician with an interest in head and neck surgery to contribute to delivering the highest standards of care. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring patients referred with suspected head and neck cancer and seen and managed in a timely and appropriate fashion and will support the team in delivering the faster diagnosis standard for head and neck cancer referrals. In addition, they will receive training in the full spectrum of head and neck surgery, with additional opportunities for exposure to skin cancer surgery, and / or endocrine neck surgery, dependant upon their prior experience and training needs. There will also be significant opportunities for research and / or service improvement projects. This post would be well suited to a CCT holder looking for further training prior to commencing benign/diagnostic head and neck consultant post, or an experienced trainee ENT surgeon looking to further their head and neck skills prior to a post-CTT head and neck oncology surgery fellowship.

DUTIES OF THE POST

Duties and responsibilities will include:

• Support the smooth and efficient running of the diagnostic head and neck pathway
• Promotion of (and participation in) teaching and supervision within the department
• Flexible cover for the clinical commitments of the department
• To be active in research and to continue to maintain and update his or her professional knowledge
• To fulfill all the general conditions applying to employees of at Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust