Spinal Surgery Fellow

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a post-FRCS senior trainee to gain fellowship experience of Spinal Surgery. The post will provide extensive clinical and surgical experience in the field of elective adult degenerative spinal disease.

The spine department in Northumbria is recognised nationally for its delivery of high quality and very efficient care. The department is centrally commissioned to provide high-volume low-complexity surgery in addition to complex cervical and lumbar surgery.

Successful applicants will work as part of a Spinal Multi-Disciplinary Team, including an Orthopaedic Specialty Trainee (part of the Northern Deanery Training Program,) Pain Management Consultants, Musculoskeletal Radiologists and Extended Scope Practitioners.

We are currently advertising for posts commencing in February 2024 and 2025.

Commitments could vary but normally includes at least 9 weekday sessions of direct clinical care. This is likely to be split between theatres and outpatient work. There may also be a trauma commitment of daytime trauma weeks alongside the allocated training consultant. On call at StR/SpR level may be required, and can be discussed on an individual basis. Northumbria offers excellent training for Trauma and Orthopaedics and scores highly in GMC and deanery training surveys.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is the Northumbria Way