Overview
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for the post of Clinical Fellow in Spinal Surgery. This advert is for 4 Senior Clinical Fellow posts. The closing date is 02 October 2025. The posts are to run from 1 August 2026 for 12 months until 31 July 2027.
Applications are invited from outstanding surgical candidates with FRCS(Orth) or equivalent for the post of Clinical Fellow, The Spinal Service, Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT, Oxford. This post is suitable for surgeons who have completed their specialist registrar training (post CCT desirable) and are seeking experience in spinal surgery prior to obtaining a consultant appointment and are available from August 2025.
The Fellowship will rotate between 2 pairs of clinical teams to be discussed at interview regarding training preference. The full range of spinal surgical experience is available with surgical subspecialties including early onset scoliosis, adult deformity, all acute spinal presentations, degenerative spinal pathologies including MIS, spinal sarcoma and metastatic disease. Training and service delivery will occur across the three main OUH hospital sites. We expect successful candidates to have their own surgical loupes (recommended 3x magnification with extended field) when they start in post. Training with the microscope will also be available.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited from outstanding surgical candidates with FRCS(Orth) or equivalent for the post of Clinical Fellow, The Spinal Service, Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT, Oxford. This post is suitable for surgeons who have completed their specialist registrar training (post CCT desirable) and are seeking experience in spinal surgery prior to obtaining a consultant appointment and are available from August 2025.
The Fellowship will rotate between 2 pairs of clinical teams to be discussed at interview regarding training preference. The full range of spinal surgical experience is available with surgical subspecialties including early onset scoliosis, adult deformity, all acute spinal presentations, degenerative spinal pathologies including MIS, spinal sarcoma and metastatic disease. Training and service delivery will occur across the three main OUH hospital sites. We expect successful candidates to have their own surgical loupes (recommended 3x magnification with extended field) when they start in post. Training with the microscope will also be available.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more at the OUH website. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General 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 and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job responsibilities
The purpose of this post is to enable the successful candidate to gain fellow level experience in spinal surgery, whilst providing senior support to the professional team in carrying out its clinical workload in terms of outpatient clinics, operating lists and ward work. Over a period of one year the candidate is expected to gain experience in routine and complex surgery, including trauma and elective practice. The candidate will also be expected to engage in management and audit responsibility of the team.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
* Full GMC Registration
* Full Driving License
Qualifications/Training
* Completion of specialist training in Orthopaedics with certification
* FRCS
* Previous spinal experience or fellowship
Experience
* Completion of specialist training in Orthopaedics with certification. Spinal experience
* Interest in research with publications
* Log book showing spinal experience
* Complex spinal surgery experience
Skills and Knowledge
* Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to effectively undertake the role of spinal fellow in a large teaching hospital.
* Good personal and interpersonal skills
* Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
* Experience of routine clinical audit.
* Management training and experience
* Evidence of previous audit activity
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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