Craniofacial Fellow in Oxford

Main area: Craniofacial

Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 4 (MT04)

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months)

Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week

Job ref: 321-NOTSScAN-8026383-MT04

Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Site: John Radcliffe

Town: Oxford

Salary: £67,325 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 21/09/2026 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Main duties of the job

• Aims and responsibilities:

To gain competency in managing patients with complex craniofacial anomalies. The craniofacial fellow will present craniofacial patients on the ward round and have an up-to-date working knowledge of the condition of all patients. The fellow will prepare and present cases for the radiology multidisciplinary. It is the fellow’s responsibility to ensure that all patients are prepared and clinical investigations obtained in preparation for theatre. They will ensure that all medical records are kept up-to-date for inpatients. The fellow will coordinate care between the various multidisciplinary team members. The fellow will complete all craniofacial discharge summaries.

• Clinical:

Involvement in the daily management of all craniofacial patients and attendance at outpatient clinics and multi-disciplinary team meetings. The fellow will coordinate and contribute to the training of junior doctors within the craniofacial team. Attendance at all operating lists with training to develop surgical competency in craniofacial surgery.

Experience

• General training in Plastic Surgery/OMFS to ST3 level or equivalent.
• Exposure to craniofacial surgery.
• 3 years surgical training.
• Ability to make independent decisions, supported by consultant staff.

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice.
• Primary medical degree.
• MRCS or equivalent.

Behavioural Skills

• Professional conduct.
• Good personal and interpersonal skills.
• Sufficient leadership, organisational communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of clinical fellow in a large teaching hospital.

Technical Skills

• Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package.

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails. All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.