Senior Fellow in General (UGI) Surgery

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Fellow to join our General Surgery team at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. The post has a subspecialty interest in benign Upper GI Surgery. The post will be suitable for trainees at specialist registrar level, peri-CCT trainees or candidates aiming for post-CCT experience.

Barts Health NHS trust currently provides general surgical services from its three sites. The department of general surgery has specialist divisions of Hepato-pancreatobiliary surgery upper GI surgery and Colorectal Surgery. The Royal London Hospital is a major Trauma Centre.

The General surgery service at the Royal London hospital serves patients from east London and afar. It runs a full spectrum of activities including in-patient and out-patient care, endoscopy services, and has well established inter-disciplinary working with other services eg gynaecology for endometriosis and cancer, IBD for surgical care of IBD patients. Upper GI interests include anti reflux surgery, achalasia and gastrointestinal stromal tumours. There is a specialist Oesophageal clinic and a benign oesophageal MDT. There will be opportunities for endoscopy training to work towards JAG Accreditation.

The appointee will participate in the General Surgery on call rota and will gain experience in managing major trauma in a supportive environment

Main duties of the job

Clinical

• To provide ongoing care for the patients admitted under the UGI Surgery Firm. This will include ward rounds as per the firm rota.
• To attend operating lists, minor outpatient lists fortnightly (eg skin lesions), day case lists fortnightly at Newham, Inpatient lists weekly at Royal London.
• To attend outpatient clinics and Endoscopy lists at Royal London Hospital
• To Participate in the General Surgery and Trauma on Call rota
• The fellow will work as part of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, nurses and support staff, developing good working relationships within the team, and making use of discussions with the project supervisor(s), and other team members as appropriate, to establish and maintain excellent communication links.
• To attend Multidisciplinary Team meetings.
• The post-holder will be expected to directly supervise the junior surgical staff

About us

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Barts Health supports The Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

Whitechapel road

London

E1 1BB

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

Whitechapel road

London

E1 1BB

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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