Job overview
TITLE OF POST: Clinical Fellow Paediatric Surgery
GRADE: Specialist Registrar
SPECIALTY: Paediatric Surgery
REASON FOR VACANCY: Fixed Term Contract
SUPERVISING CONSULTANTS: Eve Coates / Miss K Lakhoo/ Mr A Lee/
Mr. K Ashour
EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR: not applicable
FULL-TIME/PART-TIME: Full Time
BASE HOSPITAL: The Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe
Hospital
WORK PATTERN: in rota, non resident
BANDING SUPPLEMENT: Band A
INCLUDES PROSPECTIVE COVER: Yes
There are middle grade posts with training opportunities in acute and elective complex paediatric surgery and one research registrar who takes part in the on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
. DUTIES OF THE POST
a) Principal Responsibilities
Clinical:
Principle responsibilities of the post holder are to work with the consultants in the day-to-day management of inpatients, outpatients, to assist, advise and supervise junior doctors and to perform administrative duties discharge summaries, clinic letter, arranging admissions and surgical procedures. The post holder is expected to take part in clinical audit.
Research:
The post holder will be able to declare an interest in performing research in laparoscopic surgery, paediatric surgical oncology or paediatric urology. If this is the case time will be allocated to undertake research.
Working for our organisation
The Department of Paediatric Surgery provides a comprehensive service for children up to years of age for Oxfordshire and is a tertiary referral service for a catchment area of million from Winchester to Kettering, Milton Keynes to Cheltenham for paediatric surgery and paediatric urology.
In the John Radcliffe Hospital there is a bed surgical ward which is shared with orthopaedic surgery. We work closely with neonatal and paediatric intensive care units and high dependency units. A regional Neonatal Surgical Service for the Oxford Region is delivered and currently approximately neonatal surgical emergencies are treated each year. There are close links between paediatric surgery and both, other surgical specialties and paediatric subspecialties including gastro-enterology, oncology, cardiology, neurology and fetal medicine.