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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees. Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre for Craniofacial Surgery and a Centre of Excellence for Paediatric Oncology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopaedics. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year. A child and adolescent mental health service is also provided with an in-patient unit based at the Trust. Recent expansion has seen the provision of additional theatres (there are 13 operating Theatres in total) and the opening of a new Neurosciences development.
Alder Hey serves not only the children of Liverpool but is the tertiary referral centre for children from Merseyside, Cheshire, parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales for many sub-specialties of paediatrics. The Trust provides a range of community services including school nursing, home carers and a child development centre. The hospital has over 300 beds, including day beds for surgery, a medical day care unit and Emergency Decision Unit.
A purpose-built Education Centre is situated on the hospital site and is available for all postgraduate educational activity.
The clinical director for neurosurgery is Prof Conor Mallucci
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The Department of Neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) offers 4 clinical fellowship posts per year. These fellowships are aimed at neurosurgeons, both UK and international, who have completed or are soon to complete general training and who are planning on a career in paediatric neurosurgery. The department is the busiest paediatric neurosurgical centre in the UK, undertaking over 1200 operative procedures per annum, with at least 2 dedicated operating theatres running every weekday. There is a faculty of 7 full time neurosurgeons who each subspecialize further within the specialty, and fellows are offered full training in operative and non-operative management of neuro-oncology (cranial and spinal), epilepsy, craniofacial, hydrocephalus/endoscopy, neurovascular, spinal dysraphism, spasticity and trauma. The department has access to specialized techniques including robot-assisted stereoEEG implantation, intraoperative MRI, integrated endoscopic operating room (Storz OR1), VisuaLase thermal interstitial therapy, minimally invasive craniosynostosis repair (spring-assisted and endoscopic), frontofacial surgery with external distraction, intrauterine myelomeningocoele repair, selective dorsal rhizotomy, Gamma Knife, endovascular treatment for aneurysm/AVM/vein of Galen malformation, and others. Our academic partner is the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (part of University College London) and the faculty lead, or contribute to, a number of nationally and internationally funded research programmes. Fellows are expected to contribute to the academic output of the department, with a minimum of 1 international conference presentation and 1 peer-reviewed publication expected during the year, with full support (including funding for conference attendance) offered. For further information, please contact the fellowship programme director Greg James (Gregory.james@gosh.nhs.uk).
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Senior Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship
Specialist experience in paediatric neurosurgery for fully trained neurosurgeons aspiring to be paediatric neurosurgeons. This is a great opportunity to get surgical experience in complex paediatric and craniofacial neurosurgery. The team has extensive experience and carries out a broad range of craniofacial and paediatric neurosurgery cases. The post also offers excellent opportunities of learning by attending the sub-specialty MDTs and clinics. Research opportunities are also available including craniofacial, trauma and craniocervical junction abnormalities.
The paediatric neurosurgical workload offers opportunities of two paediatric and two craniofacial theatre lists per week. In addition to general paeidatric neurosurgery clinics there are also clinics for craniofacial, spina bifida, paediatric spine and trauma. Weekly MDTs include craniofacial, neuro-oncology, spine and neuroradiology. The post holder will also be expected to provide general neurosurgery on-call cover as part of the neurosurgery registrar rota.
321-S6-1475-TB-A_JD (pdf)
DownloadSenior Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship (current fellow in post August 23 - Aug 24 and next availability is August 25)
In its 7th year now with exposure to fetal, paediatric, TYA and related adult neurosurgery (neuro-oncology, hydrocephalus and CSF disorders, endoscopy and minimally invasive neurosurgery, Chiari and syringomyelia, neural tube defects and paediatric neurovascular disorders) to allow the fellow the appropriate experience to embark on a career with a paediatric neurosurgical interest
The Charlotte Eades Clinical and Research Fellow in Neurosurgery (Paediatric and Adult) (current fellow in post until Feb/Mar 2024)
This is a new post which provides clinical opportunity covering fetal, paediatric, TYA and adult neurosurgery but the emphasis is on research and education
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Senior Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship – The Yorkshire Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship
This post has been approved for training by the Royal College of Surgeons as part of the RCS Senior Clinical Fellowship Scheme.
Specialty / Department: Neurosurgery
Location: Leeds Children’s Hospital at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS trust is one of the largest trusts in the UK and provides comprehensive secondary services to Leeds and tertiary services to West and North Yorkshire. The Leeds Children’s Hospital is based at the Leeds General Infirmary and is situated in the centre of the city, adjacent to Leeds University, with which there are strong links.
See attached job description for more information:
2023-01 JD - Paed Neurosurgery - Final (docx)
DownloadSenior Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship
Estimated Date of next appointment 01/08/2024
About the fellowship: The fellow would be working in a large volume paediatric neurosurgical centre with over 400 operative cases a year. Exposure to general paediatric neurosurgery which also includes neurooncology (60-70 cases performed per year), spinal dysraphism, epilepsy surgery, craniocervical junction, complex hydrocephalus and endoscopy. Access to general clinics, special interest clinics and fetal medicine counselling. For further information please email Ian.Kamaly@nhs.net or Deborah.Ferguson2@mft.nhs.uk
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