Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon
- Employer
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Closing date
- 17 Sep 2024
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- Profession
- Specialist doctor, Neurosurgery
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Setting
- Hospital
Job Details
Applications are invited for a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon. The successful applicant will join team of consultants providing a comprehensive range of spinal surgery to the West Midlands as a secondary and tertiary referral centre, and over a wider area as a quaternary referral centre. The appointee is intended to be an experienced spinal surgeon with the ability to deal with the full range of spinal pathologies and develop a subspecialty interest to support the needs of the service. The service has speciality interests in Trauma, Oncology, vascular, adult deformity, intradural and intramedullary pathologies including CSF disorders, as well as seeing a high volume of spinal trauma and infection and offering the full range of simple and complex surgery for spinal degenerative conditions. There is a dedicated spinal on-call service (currently 1:9 rota) dealing with all spinal emergencies from around the region and in-house emergencies through A&E and the Major Trauma Service including spinal trauma, metastatic spinal cord compression, spinal infection as well as acute myelopathy and cauda equina compression that may require complex spinal procedures.
In the Department cranial and spinal services work as independent services with regards to provision of both elective and emergency with separate on call rotas, and there is nonrequirement for the successful candidate to undertake any cranial work.
Company
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population.
It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible.
We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe.
We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.
We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK.
We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).
We have over 20,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing.
UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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