Band 5 Nurse and Band 2 Healthcare Support Worker recruitment is centralised, meaning when you apply you will be considered for a number of roles across the Trust. If you have any questions please email: nursing.careers@ouh.nhs.uk.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, 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, 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.
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.
Applications are invited to apply for the 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 Neurosurgical patients in Skull Base Neurosurgery. Appropriate administrative support will be provided for this post.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will take part in a 1:11 on-call rota with prospective cover. The postholder’s duties will be to provide in and outpatient care for Neurosurgical patients both Emergency and Elective, and subspecialty Skull base patients. Close working relationships with other members of the Neurosciences team will be necessary, including the Neuroradiology and Neurointensive care teams, the Skull Base MDTs, and Specialist Advanced Nurse Practitioners / OTs / Physiotherapists / Speech Therapists.
The post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching undergraduate clinical students, training junior doctors, multidisciplinary teaching, and in clinical examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity. The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training, and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
Working for our organisation
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 here 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
* Full GMC registration with licence to practise
* FRCS (SN) or equivalent
* Higher medical degree
* On GMC specialist register
Experience
* Extensive training and experience in general adult neurosurgery. Fellowship(s) in Skull Base Neurosurgery.
* Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
* Experience in complex skull base approaches. Experience in the NF2 service.
* Previous experience at Consultant Neurosurgeon level.
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to lead a team of professionals
* Effective administrative and time management skills.
* Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
* Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
* 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
* Experience of conducting clinical audits
* Leadership Qualification
* Teamworking qualification or course completed
* Training or experience in communication skills
* Interest in teaching with a portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get 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: Sanjeeva Jeyaretna Job title: Consultant Neurosurgeon Email address: Sanjeeva.Jeyaretna@ouh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01865 234838
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Mr Murtuza Sikander, Clinical Lead for Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, The John Radcliffe (email: Murtuza.sikander@ouh.nhs.uk), Mr Colin Nnadi, Clinical Director for Neurosciences (Colin.Nnadi@ouh.nhs.uk), or Sanjeeva Jeyaretna, Skull Base Surgeon (Sanjeeva.Jeyaretna@ouh.nhs.uk).
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