Job summary
- Main area
- Vascular Surgery
- Grade
- Nodal Point - 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (In addition to out of hour payments)
- Job ref
- 196-MED4446
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £55,329 p.a excl. LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery
Nodal Point - 4
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
GUY’S AND ST. THOMAS’ HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CARDIOVASCULAR DIRECTORATE
Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery Nodal Point - 4 - £55,329 p.a excl. LZ Full Time - 40 Hours per week
Fixed Term - 6 Months
The Cardiovascular directorate at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is a large, tertiary centre for acute referrals, providing highly specialised treatments to patients of South East London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The three departments of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery have 132 beds at the St Thomas’ hub site, 5 cardiac catheter laboratories, 4 dedicated operating theatres and a vascular hybrid facility with integrated imaging. We are a leader for open, endovascular and hybrid treatment of patients with complex Vascular pathology.
Main duties of the job
The directorate would like to appoint a proactive and highly-motivated individuals to join the complex tertiary service provided by Vascular Surgery within the directorate. Applicants will need to have a strong background in Vascular Surgery and be interested in developing expertise in the treatment of complex vascular procedures. The posts will be for 6 months with the possibility of extension to 12 months. These posts would be ideal for doctors working towards a consultant level appointment (either in the final year of training or as a post CCT fellowship) who would like to broaden their expertise. The applicants will be expected to support the service in both the development of clinical and research activities and will have the opportunity to be exposed to the full range of complex tertiary services provided by the department through support of on-call and emergency work.
Working for our organisation
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. Creating a world-leading Academic Health Sciences Centre.
Our excellent benefits include final salary pension scheme. Please visit our website to find out more. Equality of opportunity is our Policy. The Trust provides health services to a diverse community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Offers further training for those who have completed the majority of their higher surgical vascular training but who need some further experience in vascular and endovascular surgery including; full range of open arterial surgery, endovascular aneurysm repair (infrarenal, thoracic and complex thoracoabdominal), minimally invasive venous procedures and lymphoedema surgery.
- To provide clinical services for vascular surgery patients in support of the consultant surgeons.
- Duties will include training and mentoring of less experienced colleagues and other staff, participation in clinical audit and in clinical research projects.
- Clinical areas covered will mainly include theatres, wards, vascular high dependency intensive overnight recovery unit and outpatients.
- To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
- To participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
Person specification
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching training.
Research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical research.
Management
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management.
Desirable criteria
- Management training.
- Evidence of participation in the development of clinical services.
Skills, Knowledge & Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Competent IT user.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to perform standard emergency clinical procedures
- Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
Desirable criteria
- Previous surgical (vascular/cardiac) experience
- Familiarity and management of vascular patients including those with aortic, peripheral vascular and venous disease.
- Experience in insertion and managing central venous catheters.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Equivalent to two years full time clinical experience in vascular surgery including pre and post-operative care
Desirable criteria
- Experience as first assistant in vascular surgery.
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medical Degree
- Advanced Life Support Certification
- Eligible to work in the UK
Desirable criteria
- FRCS or Equivalent
- Higher Degree
Professional Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- MS, MD, PhD
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sanjay Patel
- Job title
- Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Closing Date: Thursday 23rd May 2024.
Interview Date: Thursday 6th June 2024.
Please note that applications might close early if a sufficient number of suitable candidates’ applications have been received. If you have not heard within two weeks of the closing date please assume that you have not been shortlisted.Informal contact
Mr Sanjay Patel ([email protected]) Departmental Lead for Education and Training.
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