Job summary
Employer heading
Enhanced Clinical Fellow in Upper GI Surgery (ST6+ equivalent)
Senior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
We invite applications for an Enhanced Clinical Fellow in Upper GI Surgery (ST6+ equivalent). The Purpose of the 1 Year fellowship is to provide an exciting opportunity for senior upper GI trainees (ST6 and above), to acquire additional skills in emergency general surgery, elective upper GI surgery and endoscopy including OGD, EUS and ERCP. The Trust has a recognised Robotic Unit and the appointee will be involved and potentially trained in Robotic UGI surgery.
To enable Fellow to become an independent Consultant Surgeon who is able to undertake surgery and train in the above areas.
Main duties of the job
We enjoy a close working relationship with the departments of histopathology, radiology, oncology, palliative care and gastroenterology. The Fellow will have exposure and experience of all aspects of gallstone management including laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopic bile duct exploration, endoscopic diagnosis and management of choledocholithiasis, hot Gallbladder surgery, management of complex acute and chronic pancreatitis, complex reflux assessment and anti-reflux surgery, staging of upper GI malignancy including EUS.
The clinical Fellow will be on the on-call rota, which will be a 1 in 10. Frimley Park Hospital is a busy DGH serving a population of approximately 440,000. The workload of the department has been increasing steadily and the hospital is working hard to ensure that all registrar hours are compliant with the rota.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB/BS or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration to cover the scope of employment
- MRCS or equivalent
- ATLS
Desirable criteria
- Distinctions, Scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees e.g. BSc, Masters, PhD (or equivalent)
- JAG Accreditation
- Post CCT or CESR
Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience working at middle grade in a surgical speciality
- Demonstrate experience of teaching & training ST1/2 or equivalent and F1
- Competent in procedures e.g. CPR, infection control, physical examination, history taking etc
- Able to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
Desirable criteria
- Has participated in clinical audit
Experience
Essential criteria
- As per shortlisting criteria above
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
- Mr Sukhpal Singh
- Job title
- Consultant Upper GI and General Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6134052
- Additional information
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