Sobell House Fellow | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Type: Trainee
Location: Oxford, OX3 7LE

Description:

This post is very kindly supported financially by Sobell House Hospice Charity and employed via the NHS.

The post holder’s duties will be primarily at Churchill Hospital, Oxford, or the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford, but it is a condition of all appointments that post holders would be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations.

Depending on specialty the post holder will be offered clinical time in the relevant home team within the trust as per their needs e.g. theatre time, clinic time etc. to ensure maintenance of competence and opportunities for development. Further conversations with the OxMINT group and visits are encouraged.

The aim of this fellowship is to offer a 40/60 split of clinical service provision with protected time to undertake a project establishing and developing a service for the management of metastatic bone pain. OxMINT (the Oxford Metastatic Intervention Team) within the trust consists of Palliative Medicine Physicians, Clinical Oncologists, Interventional Radiologists, Spinal and General Orthopaedic Surgeons, Neurosurgeons and Pain Specialist Anaesthetists and has been created in the last year. The group recognises the need to greater protocolise the management of pain in patients with metastatic bone disease and to that end is advertising this fellowship with the aim of building this service to the point of sustainability as well as a desire to enable data capture and analysis for international publication.

It is anticipated that this post will provide an excellent opportunity for senior trainees in any of the above specialties looking to take an OOP to gather in depth experience of symptom management or pain management work. This post offers the chance for a senior clinician to develop and demonstrate service design and implementation skills in a Shelford Group trust.

Sobell House is an NHS Specialist Palliative Care Service and is an integral part of the Oncology Directorate within the Surgery and Oncology Division in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sobell House has served the community of Oxfordshire for over 40 years. Sobell House Hospice Charity supports the work of the Hospice and the Trust. Visit the website at www.sobellhouse.org.Sobell House Hospice Charity is supplying the funds to support these fellowship roles financially.

An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below for an applicant with Physician training but would be altered depending on specialty of applicant to include relevant theatre/clinic/reporting/procedural time. The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually

Day

Time

Location

Work

Categorisation

Monday

0900 – 1300

Inpatient hospice

Ward round

DCC

1300 – 1700

Inpatient hospice

Ward work

DCC

Tuesday

0900 – 1300

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

1300 – 1700

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

Wednesday

0900 – 1300

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

1300 – 1700

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

Thursday

0900 – 1300

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

1300-1700

Flexible

Service Development

SPA

Friday

0900 – 1300

Inpatient hospice

Ward round

DCC

1300 – 1700

Inpatient hospice

Ward work

DCC

Annual and study leave arrangements must be co-ordinated within the specialty to ensure there is an acceptable level of cover. Leave form is available on the ORH intranet. This must be signed by the Clinical Lead and submitted to designated managerial staff. Clinic cancellations require at least 6 weeks’ notice.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 May 2025

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