Consultant in Complex Spine SurgeryNHS

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust

Consultant in Complex Spine Surgery

The Royal London Hospital Substantive

7 PA Post

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant in Complex Spine Surgery to join our expanding multidisciplinary spinal service based at The Royal London Hospital.

This is a substantive post with a particular focus on spinal trauma, including a Spinal Trauma Subspecialty Lead role and dedicated trauma clinics. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of a consultant-led spinal trauma rota within one of the UK's busiest Major Trauma Centres.

Main duties of the job

You will join a large, collaborative team of orthopaedic and neurosurgical spinal consultants delivering high-quality care across adult and paediatric populations. The service provides complex trauma, paediatric deformity, elective spinal surgery, and tertiary referrals across North East London.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive adult and paediatric emergency spinal surgery, including instrumented trauma, MSCC and spinal infections.
• Participate in the 1:9 24/7 Consultant-of-the-Week rota (Category A).
• Lead and develop spinal trauma pathways and governance.
• Deliver elective spinal surgery across Barts Health sites.
• Supervise trainees, fellows and extended scope practitioners.
• Contribute to MDTs, governance, service development and research activity.

Job description

You will join a large, collaborative team of orthopaedic and neurosurgical spinal consultants delivering highquality care across adult and paediatric populations. The service provides complex trauma, paediatric deformity, elective spinal surgery, and tertiary referrals across North East London.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive adult and paediatric emergency spinal surgery, including instrumented trauma, MSCC and spinal infections.
• Participate in the 1:9 24/7 Consultant-of-the-Week rota (Category A).
• Lead and develop spinal trauma pathways and governance.
• Deliver elective spinal surgery across Barts Health sites.
• Supervise trainees, fellows and extended scope practitioners.
• Contribute to MDTs, governance, service development and research activity.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.