Paediatric Surgery Spr 3 - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Description

TITLE OF POST:
Clinical Fellow Paediatric Surgery

GRADE:
Specialist Registrar

SPECIALTY:
Paediatric Surgery

REASON FOR VACANCY:
Fixed Term Contract

SUPERVISING CONSULTANTS:
Mr H Grant/ Miss K Lakhoo/ Mr A Lee/
Miss S Wagener/ Prof. P. Johnson/
Mr I Willetts/ Mr. K Ashour /Mr M Bader

EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISOR:
not applicable

FULL-TIME/PART-TIME:
Full Time

BASE HOSPITAL:
The Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe
Hospital

WORK PATTERN: 1 in 8 rota, non resident

BANDING SUPPLEMENT:
Band 1A

INCLUDES PROSPECTIVE COVER:
Yes

There are 7 middle grade posts with training opportunities in acute and elective complex paediatric surgery and one research registrar who takes part in the on-call rota.

DUTIES OF THE POST

a) Principal Responsibilities

Clinical:

Principle responsibilities of the post holder are to work with the consultants in the day-to-day management of inpatients, outpatients, to assist, advise and supervise junior doctors and to perform administrative duties e.g.

discharge summaries, clinic letter, arranging admissions and surgical procedures. The post holder is expected to take part in clinical audit.

Research:

The post holder will be able to declare an interest in performing research in laparoscopic surgery, paediatric surgical oncology or paediatric urology.

If this is the case time will be allocated to undertake research.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery provides a comprehensive service for children up to 16 years of age for Oxfordshire and is a tertiary referral service for a catchment area of 3 million from Winchester to Kettering, Milton Keynes to Cheltenham for paediatric surgery and paediatric urology.

In the John Radcliffe Hospital there is a 20 bed surgical ward which is shared with orthopaedic surgery. We work closely with neonatal and paediatric intensive care units and high dependency units.

A regional Neonatal Surgical Service for the Oxford Region is delivered and currently approximately 200 neonatal surgical emergencies are treated each year.

There are close links between paediatric surgery and both, other surgical specialties and paediatric subspecialties including gastro-enterology, oncology, cardiology, neurology and fetal medicine.

Teaching

There is a very active teaching programme in this unit:
Weekly Educational Timetable
Monday

Oncology MDT
Thursday

Urology X-ray & MDT
Urology teaching/Journal Club
(MB/IW)
Friday

OUH Surgical Grand Round

Radiology Teaching
(+/- Pathology)

Consultant led teaching, including Audit, Morbidity and Mortality meetings
Extra Teaching Activity
Resus Training
All trainees within 1st Month
Laparoscopic
Training
All trainees to attend - arrange with rota co-ordinator

Daily Commitment
AM
PM
Monday
Clinical
Clinical
Tuesday
Clinical
Clinical
Wednesday
Off post on call / clinical if not on call Tuesday
Thursday
Clinical
Clinical
Friday
Departmental teaching
Audit
Clinical allocations can be daytime on call, theatre or clinics.

On call:
one night per week (Monday - Thursday, 5 out of 8 weeks), Friday night (1 out of 8), weekend (1 out of 8)
This timetable currently reflects the allocations for a clinical fellow who does not wish to perform research. If the post holder decides to pursue research some of the clinical time will be reallocated as research time. The timetable has to be flexible enough to allow short term changes to cover clinical commitments as required.
c) Job Summary (clinical/ administrative)
All registrars are fully supervised and supported at all times

They are expected to:

Participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
Supervise junior doctor's ward work (including discharge letters)
Conduct routine hand over ward rounds at 7.45am every morning & working ward rounds thereafter as well as hand over to the oncall team every evening
Organize and attend theatre lists in discussion with the consultant
Attend outpatient clinics & dictate clinic letters
Be responsible for patient transfers to other hospitals they must give appropriate & relevant advice to assist in the patient transfer
Take calls from GPs / other hospitals who wish to refer patients
Take initiative to improve continuity & maintain patient care
Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training

The on-call is 1in8 with prospective cover. The rota is EWTD compliant but could be reconfigured as a 1in7 with EWTD compliance maintained if necessary.