Employer Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Stanmore Town Stanmore Salary £65,048 + £2,162 LW per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/10/2025 23:59
Spinal Deformity Senior Clinical Fellow
MT04
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The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
* Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
* Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
* Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
* In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
* Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
* Patients first, always
* Excellence, in all we do
* Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
* Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
Recruitment for x3 Spinal fellows
X 1 January2026 lead consultant Mr Mohammed Madi
The fellowship scope of practise includes full-endoscopic and bi portal endoscopic spinal surgery techniques, paediatric and adult spinal deformity correction (anterior and posterior approaches, instrumented fusion, and osteotomies), navigation-assisted spinal surgery, and primary and complex revision procedures for deformity, infection and trauma.
X 1 February 2026 Lead Consultant Mr Roozbeh Shafafy
Paediatric & Adult Spinal Deformity,scoliosis,Kyphosis, Degenererative spinal disease, Myeloma of the spine, spinal tumours, Spinal trauma,
Complex Paediatric and Adult Spinal Deformity, Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Revision Surgery, Computer Navigated Surgery
Spinal tumour management and surgery including primary malignant, secondary malignant and benign spinal tumours.
Spinal deformity in children and adults.
Acute spinal conditions including spinal trauma, disc prolapse and spinal sports injuries
Degenerative spinal conditions affecting the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.
Minimally invasive and technology enables Spine Surgery
.Applicants should either have the CCT or have undertaken 1 year Spinal fellowship or close to it.
Main duties of the job
The Fellowship is designed to provide skills and competencies above and beyond what is currently required to obtain a CCT in the relevant surgical specialty. Applicants should already be experienced in Spinal Surgery, the Fellowship offers exposure to a wide range of Degenerative, Adult and paediatric deformity surgery (with specific reference to Minimal Access techniques as well as Computer Navigated Spinal Surgery).
They will be expected to develop knowledge clinically and surgically over the fellowship. The aim of the surgical fellowship is to prepare the successful candidate for complex spinal surgery at consultant level. The case mix of spinal surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is extensive: paediatric and adult complex spinal deformity, spinal tumours, spinal infections, low back and neck surgery and spinal trauma including osteoporotic fracture management.
The fellow will also develop sufficient knowledge and leadership in order to take a leading role as a Consultant in a department dealing with complex spinal conditions and their sequel, which, with altered life style, expectations and medical advances means that spinal surgeons are expected to handle increasing complex cases. The fellow will develop the communication skills and attitudes to set them up for Consultant practice in a centre of excellence to enable them to develop their skills further and train the next generation of spinal surgeons.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This fellowship year will provide specialist training in the following:-
* MDT administration and delivery for tertiary referrals
* Pre and post-op ward rounds
* Surgical multidisciplinary procedures
* Clinics & theatre list
* Clinical research including data collection and audit.
* Preparation of abstracts and papers for presentation and publication
The post is dedicated to the development of high level clinical and research experience in the field of spinal deformity correction Additionally the fellow will prepare a surgical plan for each patient.
Participation and presentation of interesting/complex cases at the weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings for spinal deformity patients. In addition to routine clinical commitments and research session the fellow may also be called upon to occasionally teach MSc students, specialist registrars and more.
Person specification
* Full registration with GMC FRCS NTN in relevant surgical specialty Within 6 months of CCT date.
* 1 years Spinal fellowship already undertaken or close to end
Experience
* Experience in spinal surgery at SpR level.
* Already developed an interest in spinal surgery, especially spinal deformity correction surgery, including adolescent, and degenerative scoliosis. Some experience in spinal trauma surgery is also preferable.
* Research with higher degree ideally in relevant specialty
* Experience of MDT working
* Evidence of good written and verbal communication skills
* An understanding of the major risk factors for spinal surgery at a population level and at the level of the individual
* Awareness of specific needs of spinal injury and spinal deformity patients and their carers, issues relating to service provision for spinal surgery patients in hospital and the community
* Ability and enthusiasm to teach medical undergraduates and Allied Health Professionals
* Personal participation in audit
Disposition
* Clarity of career aims, in particular reasons for choosing fellowship post in spinal deformity and spinal trauma surgery
* Evidence of being a good team member
* Active interest in research and audit
* Commitment and interest in research
* Recognition of the importance of research in the field of scoliosis development and treatment.
Other Requirements
* This post is subject to enhanced DBS clearance
* Prepared to assess specific training opportunities at various sites according to programme
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and offer a range of flexible working practices. Part-time and job share applications will be considered.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
By applying for this post you are agreeing to RNOH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.
Additionally, by applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
The RNOH operates a Smoke-Free Policy. Smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s premises (including the grounds that those premises are sited on) or in any Trust owned vehicle.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
RNOH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of RNOH will have their original documents verified using this technology.
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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 Priya Patel Job title service manager Email address priya.patel90@nhs.net Telephone number 0203 947 0171 Additional information
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