ACF Oral Surgery 2019.

Oral Surgery ST1 Recruitment

The University of Leeds, in partnership with Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Trust, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Wakefield) and the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has developed an exciting pathway of academic clinical training opportunities.

Applications are now invited for an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Oral Surgery at ST1 level in Leeds from April 2019.

Please read through all the relevant information available on the HEEYH Oral Surgery ACF Webpage and associated links before beginning your application (link available through Oriel).

Applications open at 10am on the 30^th October 2018 and the closing date is 4pm on the 27^th November 2018. You will not be able to submit your application after this time. Please ensure that you have completed all the relevant sections of the application forms as missing information will deem your application incomplete and it will not be considered.

Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs) are 3 year fixed-term national training posts. They attract an NTN(A) and trainees undertake 75 % clinical and 25% academic training over the term of the post. They are employed by the NHS Trust and have an honorary contract with the University at whose Medical School their academic research is supported.

ACF trainees also undertake a Research Training Programme provided by the University for which funding is provided by NIHR. They also are eligible for a £1,000 bursary per year to support research training activity (e.g to attend academic conferences).

ACF trainees would also normally complete and submit an external funding application for a research fellowship to enable them to complete a higher degree (PhD or research MD) following the completion of their ACF fixed-term post, which would be completed as Out-of-Programme-Research (OOPR).

All Academic Clinical Fellowships are run-through posts, regardless of specialty. A trainee entering ACF at ST1 in a specialty with a Core Training period would therefore be guaranteed continued training to CCT in the eventual specialty, as long as they progress satisfactorily through their training.

The qualifications and professional registration requirements plus other eligibility criteria can be found in the person specification. The person specification for this specialty is available from the Job Description or the Specialty Training website.

Please upload all required evidence of competences to your online application form when completing the application form online. For those experiencing difficulties when uploading evidence, please ensure you email the evidence to the following email address by the application deadline: academic.rec@yh.hee.nhs.uk  with “your name” and “competencies” in the title of the email.

Eligibility Criteria for recruitment to Specialty Training 2018 – Immigration Requirements

You are eligible to be considered for Oral Surgery ACF training in Round 1 if:

•             You are a UK or EEA national

•             You are a non-UK or non-EEA national and your immigration status allows you to work without restriction in the UK.  For example, if you have Tier 1 or dependent status, and no restriction against working as a doctor or dentist in training

•             You are a non-UK or non-EEA national, you graduated from a UK medical or dental school, your immigration status currently entitles you to work in the Foundation Programme and here you would have previously been eligible for Tier 1 (PSW).  You will need to apply for Tier 2 sponsorship, but you will be exempt from the Resident Labour Market Test (RLMT) in this instance.

Evidence of immigration status should normally consist of a biometric residence card, date stamped passport, and accompanying letter from the Home Office.  Please visit their website for more information.

If your employment is subject to immigration control, you should follow this hyperlink for information about how this will affect your application. In some cases, applications will not be considered or only once the resident labour market test can be satisfied.

Please note:  All applicants who do not already hold a National Training Number (NTN) or Deanery Reference Number (DRN) in the GMC specialty to which they are applying for will be required to undertake clinical benchmarking as part of the interview process, this will involve undertaking a clinical interviews process that’s comparable to the National Interviews. The benchmarking interviews will be conducted on the same day and at the same venue as your Academic interview, further information will be supplied in the invite letter.

The Postgraduate Dean confirms that this placement and / or programme has the required educational and Dean’s approval. The Training Programme is equally open to those who may, either from the outset or subsequently, wish to train less than full time or job share. 

Applications are equally open to those who may, either from the outset or subsequently, wish to train less than full time or job share.

Please note that there is a strict application policy that applications cannot be accepted after the deadline.

Pay scales          

All trainees should be paid monthly at the rates set out in the national terms and conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health medicine and the community health service (England and Wales), “the TCS”, as amended from time to time. The pay scales are reviewed annually. Part-time posts will be paid pro-rata.

Current rates of pay for junior doctors may be viewed on the NHS Employers website

Enquiries

Further information regarding HEEYH ACF vacancies is available from the HEEYH Recruitment webpages

For any queries that cannot be answered by the methods above please contact; academic.rec@yh.hee.nhs.uk  with “your name” and the “Question area” in the title of the email.

NIHR have produced some Frequently Asked Questions for applicants. You are advised to read this document in full before submitting your application.

For further national information please visit the Specialty Training Website

• • National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
  • Yorkshire and the Humber Academic Training webpages
  • The University of Sheffield 

 You are advised to read this document in full before submitting your application.