Job Overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main Duties of the Job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled practitioner to join our skull base service. The successful candidate will provide information, education, and practical support for patients and their families with vestibular schwannoma and other skull base pathologies.

Working for Our Organisation

University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.

Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs, and Jurassic Coast.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

• Attendance at multidisciplinary MDTs, attend both skull base surgical and oncology clinics
• Provision of information, education, and practical support for patients and their families with vestibular schwannoma and other skull base pathologies
• Be a single point of contact for questions about their diagnosis, scan results, changes in symptoms, coordination of further oncology treatment
• Help in the follow up and rehabilitation of patients after the treatment of their vestibular schwannoma including referral to and liaising with other agencies such as audiology, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and vestibular rehabilitation
• Data entry and coordination of the national Vestibular schwannoma database
• Assessment and management of some of the simpler new surgical patients within an agreed protocol