Senior Clinical Fellow in ENT

Job overview

Applications are invited for a full-time post of Senior Clinical Fellow in Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgery for 12 months. The post is based at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage and is designed to provide a platform for a registrar level surgeon to advance their clinical knowledge and skills.

The successful applicant will be actively involved in the clinical and managerial aspects of our ENT department. Our The ENT department performs regularly advanced ear operations (including bone conduction and middle ear implant work), advanced rhinology procedures, transoral robotic surgery, transnasal oesophagoscopy, and has the largest cohort of thyroid/parathyroid patients in Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire. There are subspecialty clinics taking place daily (e.g hearing and balance, smell, thyroid/parathyroid, head and neck, paediatric) and different MDTs that the fellow will be expected to attend.

There will be a defined management and teaching responsibility and the potential for collaborative research projects to be developed. Experience in ENT at SHO level is essential. The post-holder will be supervised in operating lists and clinics and will be part of the out of hours on-call rota.

Main duties of the job

This is an excellent opportunity within the ENT unit at the Trust for the appointee to further their interest and surgical knowledge and skills. The ENT department performs regularly advanced ear operations (including bone conduction and middle ear implant work), advanced rhinology procedures (and use of Navigation), transoral robotic surgery, trans-nasal oesophagoscopy, and has the largest cohort of thyroid/parathyroid patients in Hertfordshire/ Bedfordshire. There are subspecialty clinics taking place daily (e.g hearing and balance, smell, thyroid and parathyroid, head and neck, paediatric) and different MDTs that the fellow will be expected to attend. The post-holder will be supervised in operating lists and clinics.The post holder will be part of an on-call rota (1 in 7 hot weeks, 1 in 9 out of hour on calls ).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.