Spine fellowships in United Kingdom

Application status: The linked NHS Jobs advert is closed. Its training requirements, salary and duties describe that historical vacancy; no new intake is verified.

Funding: Historical closed advert: Salary of £49,909 to £61,825 a year pro rata. This is the advertised rate for that vacancy, not a verified current salary.

Exposure: The fellow acts as a senior registrar in the complex spinal teams, covering spinal deformity surgery, surgery for spinal tumours, spinal trauma and infections, congenital spinal disorders, tethered cord and chiari malformations, with time allocated for research and teaching.

Eligibility: Specialist Fellowship in neurosurgery or equivalent and FRCS Neurosurgery; completed year 5 of Specialist Registrar training (or equivalent).

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · International eligibility · Language · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: NHS Jobs advert. Reviewed 22 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Adult and paediatric deformity, spinal tumours, degenerative disease, trauma and cranio-cervical junction disorders.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Open and minimally invasive fixation, interbody fusion, cervical surgery, intradural tumours and independent clinic and MDT practice.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Complex spinal decision-making, outpatient and MDT practice, index spinal procedures and transition toward independent practice.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Complex degenerative, trauma, tumour and deformity spine care with operative, clinic and multidisciplinary experience.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: High-volume complex spinal surgery, navigation, neuromonitoring, specialised approaches, clinical decision-making and academic training.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: Employment terms are vacancy-specific and are not consolidated on the RCS register.

Exposure: Emergency and elective complex spine surgery at a major trauma centre, including open, minimally invasive and navigated techniques.

Eligibility: Scheme-wide: open to international candidates and SAS doctors with ST6–ST8-equivalent training; UK posts require GMC registration and eligibility to work in the UK on a temporary work visa.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Language · Benefits · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents

Source: Official RCS England neurosurgery fellowship register. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The page describes a completed recruitment round and an August 2026 start, already past at this review. A later vacancy is not established.

Funding: Paid post: salary at the appropriate point of the ST3+ scale based on previous service, with 1B (40%) banding; the Trust page gives a typical gross salary of about £71,000 for non-UK trainees.

Exposure: All aspects of spinal surgery in a combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical spinal department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, including complex degenerative cervical and lumbar surgery, spinal tumours (the RVI is one of four UK centres treating primary spinal tumours), spinal deformity and sarcoma for senior appointees, and acute spinal on-call on a 1:5 rota with no overnight or non-spinal on-call duties.

Eligibility: Non UK/EEA applicants should ensure they are aware of recent changes to the immigration rules for Postgraduate Doctors and Dentists

Still to confirm: Current status · Deadline · Training level · Medical registration · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Application route · Official contact · Programme director

Source: Official Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust page. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Application status: The service’s general visiting-fellowship page does not define one standard contract. A separate NHS Lothian recruitment pack describes a 12-month SNSS clinical fellow post starting December 2026, with a 31 January 2026 closing date. That closed recruitment round is a specific employed route, not confirmation that a new visiting placement is available.

Funding: For the separately advertised 12-month SNSS clinical fellow post (application deadline 31 January 2026), the NHS Lothian pack quoted GBP 45,504–60,199 per year pro rata and 40 hours with a rota commitment. This historical salary does not establish funding for an individually arranged visiting fellowship.

Exposure: Spinal surgery training within a national paediatric, adolescent and adult spinal service operating at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Edinburgh.

Eligibility: No formal criteria stated; the service trains surgeons from the United Kingdom, Europe and the rest of the World

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Training level · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: Official Scottish National Spine Service visiting surgeons page. Reviewed 17 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.

Funding: The official page does not publish funding details.

Exposure: A comprehensive experience in the breadth of spinal surgery, with six months at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and six months at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Eligibility: Post-CCT or equivalent trainees in neurosurgery or orthopaedics.

Still to confirm: Current status · Commencement · Deadline · Positions · Participation level · Training level · International eligibility · Medical registration · Examinations · Language · Visa / work authorisation · Benefits · Fees · Insurance · Accommodation · Application documents · Programme director · Accreditation

Source: Official University Hospitals Birmingham spinal services fellowships page. Reviewed 15 Oct 2026. Status reflects the last review, not a live vacancy check. Completeness is not a quality rating.