Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon

Applications are invited for a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon. The successful applicant will join a team of consultants providing a comprehensive range of spinal surgery to the West Midlands as a secondary and tertiary referral centre, and over a wider area as a quaternary referral centre.

The appointee is intended to be an experienced spinal surgeon with the ability to deal with the full range of spinal pathologies and develop a subspecialty interest to support the needs of the service. The service has specialty interests in:

1. Trauma
2. Oncology
3. Vascular
4. Adult deformity
5. Intradural and intramedullary pathologies including CSF disorders

Additionally, the service sees a high volume of spinal trauma and infection and offers the full range of simple and complex surgery for spinal degenerative conditions.

There is a dedicated spinal on-call service (currently 1:9 rota) dealing with all spinal emergencies from around the region and in-house emergencies through A&E and the Major Trauma Service including spinal trauma, metastatic spinal cord compression, spinal infection, as well as acute myelopathy and cauda equina compression that may require complex spinal procedures.

In the Department, cranial and spinal services work as independent services with regards to the provision of both elective and emergency cases with separate on-call rotas. There is no requirement for the successful candidate to undertake any cranial work.