Clinical Fellow – Skull Base In Neurosurgery

Applications are invited to the post of Clinical Fellowin Neurosurgery – Skull Base, to start in Summer of 2024.
We are proud to offer the opportunity to work as part of the team at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery which is part of University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. As part of UCL Partners, we form the largest Academic Health Science Centre in Europe.
This post offers a unique training opportunity. It is suitable for a post-CCT Neurosurgery trainee, who wishes to pursue a focused one-year training in lateral Skull base surgery, allowing her/him to pursue a career in Skull base neurosurgery. The post is a full time appointment.
The fellowship is expected to be for 12 months duration; there may be an option for prolonging this for up to a second year.
The post holder would also be expected to participate in MDT Skull base clinics with responsibility of seeing new and follow up patients. The post holder is integrally involved in the Multidisciplinary team meetings, and is expected to present patients during the meeting, gaining experience in pre and post -surgical evaluation and decision making.
We would welcome applications from any candidate whose career progression would be helped by a longer period of complex lateral Skull base experience at registrar level including lateral orbital, subtemporal, transpetrous and retrosigmoid approaches.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.