NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area Neurosurgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 321-MS-TP-CON-7771716-S5
Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Headington Salary £109,725 - £145,478 Pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/03/2026 23:59
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement andp>
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
Applications are invited to apply for the above substantive consultant post in the Department of Neurosurgery based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
The successful applicant will join a team of currently 13 substantive Adult and 4 Paediatric Neurosurgery Consultants. The focus of the post will be the management of Emergency and Elective Oncological Neurosurgical patients. Appropriate administrative support will be provided for this post.
The Neurological Surgery Department has Academic and Clinical Training programmes. The applicant will be involved in training Specialist Registrars and Neuro-oncology Fellows (in a Royal College of Surgeons of England accredited Fellowship). Close clinical ties with our Paediatric Neurosurgery colleagues exist, and teaching/audit is done jointly with the Paediatric Neurosurgery service.
Applicants must hold full registration and licence to practice with the GMC, and must be on the GMC Specialist Register via Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or CESR (CP) (proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview), or CESR/Portfolio pathway, or alternative routes to specialist registration. Applicants should have subspeciality fellowship level training in Oncological Neurosurgery.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will take part in a 1:12 non-resident on call rota with prospective cover, and when on call will be required to be within ten miles by road from the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The postholder’s duties will be to provide inpatient and outpatient care for neurosurgical patients both emergency and elective, and subspecialty neuro-oncology patients. Close working relationships with other members of the neurosciences team will be necessary. This includes all members of the neuro-oncology MDT – radiologists, oncologists, and Specialist Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
The post-holder will have equal access to clinics, theatres, junior doctor and administrative support and office space.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for further information regarding duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
* GMC Specialist register in neurosurgery, or within 6 months of obtaining this
* Higher medical degree
Experience
* Extensive training and experience in general adult neurosurgery. Fellowship(s) in Oncological Neurosurgery.
* Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
* Experience in awake craniotomies, endoscopy, tractography and intra-operative monitoring
* Previous experience at Consultant Neurosurgeon level
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to lead a team of professionals
* Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
* Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
* Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to Clinical Governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
* Previous experience at Consultant Neurosurgeon level
* Presentation at national and international conferences
* Peer reviewed publications
* Evidence of participation in multidisciplinary meetings
* Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name James Fitzgerald
Job title Neurosurgical Clinical Lead
Email address James.Fitzgerald@ouh.nhs.uk
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