Head and Neck Clinical fellow Maxillofacial- ST8inLeicesterinLeicesterPUBLISHED THU 20 MAR 2025

The benefits of a UK fellowship trainee include expanded exposure to salivary gland pathology and surgical management of oral cancer. The candidate will be offered advanced training and hands-on exposure to all aspects of Maxillofacial Surgery, including (but not limited to) surgical head and neck oncology.

PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF THE POST WILL BE

This post is to work within the Maxillofacial Department at the Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.

The Maxillofacial Department is a busy and expanding department, which undertakes the full range of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery services in Leicestershire for a population of over one million. There is a large volume of routine oral surgical referrals and maxillofacial trauma. Special interests of the department include Head and Neck Oncology, Oral and Facial Reconstruction, Facial Deformity including Cleft Lip and Palate problems, and Oral and Craniofacial Implants.

The fellow will work closely with the consultants designated above.

The fellow will work closely with the Head and Neck consultant team in the field of head and neck surgery.The fellow will be mentored in head and neck patient management, decision making protocols and contemporary management. The fellow will be mentored in surgical techniques including tumor ablation and neck dissection. They will spend a period of two weeks with the Head and Neck oncologists at the LRI.

Critically, the service also provides the full scope maxillofacial surgery, such as deformity, trauma, and Salivary gland surgery as well as Oral surgery. The attraction for the fellow will be the enormous volume and variety of maxillofacial pathology this department attracts.

About us

The Leicester Royal Infirmary is an acute hospital with beds for each of the main specialties and contains the only Accident and Emergency Unit in the District.

The University Hospitals of Leicester are celebrating the opening of a new £48 million state-of-the-art Emergency Department in April 2. The ED is the busiest single-site service in the UK.

There is a suite of 16 operating theatres with a 24 hour recovery area, and in addition there are 3 other outlying theatres.

The Sandringham Building which opened in 1980, provides Pathology, Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement departments, and separate, purpose built laboratories for Histopathology, Chemical Pathology and the Public Health Laboratory Service.

Medical Physics and Physiological Measurement occupy two floors, with accommodation for Radio Isotopes, E.C.G. diagnostic reporting service, E.E.G., E.N.T. measurements and many special procedures.

A large clinical skills centre is housed within the Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building(RKCSB) of the University of Leicester is situated on the Royal Infirmary site. The ground floor of the RKSCB building is being converted into a dedicated simulation facility which will include state of the art facilities for delivering undergraduate simulation teaching and examinations. The new centre will open in Jan 2.

The RKSCB also houses offices, including the Postgraduate Dean's Office, and research laboratories for the greater part of the University Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Community Health, Pathology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

The Windsor Building opened in November 1992, includes Acute wards, The Childrens Hospital, Integrated Medicine wards, Haematology and Bone marrow transplant wards, X-Ray, Pharmacy, Mortuary, Medical Illustration, Ophthalmic Outpatients, Child Development Centre, Staff Changing, and Kitchen/Dining area.

The Osborne Building opened in October 1997. It provides an integrated service including the Departments of Haematology and Oncology. New radiotherapy equipment has been installed and outpatient, inpatient and hostel facilities are available within the building. Regular meetings and lectures by invited speakers take place in the seminar suite within the Osborne Building.

Obstetric and all other womens and neonatal services have been combined into the Womens Hospital which opened in 1997. The centralisation of all these services is designed to improve the provision of womens health in Leicestershire.

The Trust is currently planning a major reconfiguration of its services. This involves proposals for a Centre for Planned Care on the site of the Leicester General Hospital with the establishing of the Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield Hospitals as sites delivering emergency services. The detail of services to be placed on each of these sites is currently the subject of debate with the particular involvement of clinicians.

DEPARTMENT OF MAXILLOFACIAL

BACKGROUND

The Department is based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary in the City Centre. There are dedicated clinic rooms onsite with support from nursing teams and other allied health professionals. The department also has its own dedicated prosthesis laboratory and technicians with a state of the art 3D printer and facilities.

The service has 14 theatre sessions per week, day case patients recover in the Ambulatory Surgical Unit (ASU) on level 2 of the Balmoral Building whilst our inpatients are on Level 3 in Ward 9 or within the Kinmonth Unit (high dependency step down unit).

MEDICAL STAFF

Mr Nahul Patel Head of Service for Maxillofacial, Orthodontics and Restorative

Dentistry

Ms Hazel Busby-Earle Consultant for Facial Trauma & Salivary Gland Diseases, Clinical Director for MSS

Mr Chris Avery Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon

Mr Manish Mair Consultant in Head and Neck Surgery

Mr Phillip Ameerally Consultant in Head and Neck Surgery

Mr Sundarraj Laksmiah Locum Consultant in Head and Neck surgery

Mr Christopher Vinall Consultant for Orthonathic Surgery

Mr Raghav Kulkarni Consultant Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon

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