TITLE OF POST: Clinical Fellow Paediatric Surgery
GRADE: Specialist Registrar
SPECIALTY: Paediatric Surgery
REASON FOR VACANCY: Fixed Term Contract (3 Month)
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
INCLUDES PROSPECTIVE COVER: Yes
- DUTIES OF THE POST
- 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
14.00-15.00
Oncology MDT
Thursday
08.30-09.30
Urology X-ray & MDT
Urology teaching/Journal Club
(MB/IW)
Friday
08.00-09.00
OUH Surgical Grand Round
09.30-10.30
Radiology Teaching
(+/- Pathology)
11.00-13.00
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ian Willetts Job title: Paediatric Consultant Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01865 231673
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