Paediatric Medical Spinal Liaison Fellow

Join Nottingham Children’s Hospital as a Paediatric Medical Spinal Liaison Fellow and become a key part of our paediatric spinal pathway. You’ll work alongside a named paediatrician and the paediatric spinal surgical teams to provide daily senior medical oversight for children after complex spinal surgery covering high-dependency post op care, pain optimisation, early escalation and coordinated discharge planning. The post sits within a supportive MDT that includes spinal surgeons, neurosurgeons, critical care outreach and an experienced pain team, with strong links across allied health professions.

This role is central to our enhanced, protected bay model designed to reduce reliance on HDU beds, improve waiting times and cut cancellations, ultimately improving experiences for children and families. As our dedicated paediatric spinal unit expands activity (from 90 scoliosis cases per year towards 132), you’ll help the team deliver safe, well-coordinated care at pace.

You’ll be based at Queen’s Medical Centre (NUH), one of Europe’s largest university hospitals, with access to weekly paediatric teaching, grand rounds and excellent library/IT facilities within the University of Nottingham Medical School. We’re a friendly, ambitious team and welcome applicants keen to contribute to audit/QI and perioperative MDTs, with opportunities to present at reputable conferences.

You will provide consistent senior ward based medical care for children following spinal surgery in our protected bay. That includes:

• Daily assessment and review
• Investigations and treatment planning
• Timely escalation for the acutely unwell child
• Optimising recovery in partnership with the paediatric pain team and AHPs (nutrition, respiratory care, mobilisation)
• Leading coordinated, criteria led discharge planning, ensuring clear documentation, TTOs and safety netting for families

Working at the centre of the MDT spinal surgery, neurosurgery, anaesthetics, critical care outreach, paediatrics and therapy colleagues, you’ll help deliver a reliable pathway that reduces avoidable HDU use and cancellations. You’ll communicate clearly with children, young people and families, contribute to peri-operative MDTs, and support teaching and supervision of junior doctors and medical students.

You will participate in audit, QI and clinical governance, maintain high quality records and handovers, and uphold NUH standards for safeguarding, infection prevention and health and safety at all times.

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) was established in 2006 and we are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, providing services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham.

NUH is a large, complex, person-centred organisation with over 17,000 employees from a wide range of professional backgrounds, making it one of the region’s largest employers.

NUH has an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of their patient care and for their research, education and innovation. They have strong links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University, allowing for the provision of excellent training and education for their students, as well as being a major research organisation.

Benefits of working for NUH include:

• Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our 24-hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service, and staff support networks
• Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work and travel passes
• NHS discounts
• Flexible working

Details of these and other benefits can be found on our intranet pages which you will have access to when you commence with Team NUH.