Senior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery/HPBNHS

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust requires a Senior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery/HPB for 12 months.

The post is based at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital which are well-equipped modern hospitals with excellent facilities.

The successful applicant will assist in providing a clinical service in General Surgery to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include supporting and undertaking outpatient clinics, operating lists, ward rounds and being part of the Surgical Out of Hours Service (SOS) on-call rota.

If you would like to build your career within this professional, innovative team, and have a willingness to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-professional basis, coming to East Lancashire could be for you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist in providing a clinical service in elective and emergency General Surgery/HPB to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include undertaking outpatient clinics, daytime operating lists and out of hour's emergency operating lists under the supervision of Consultants. The post holder may rotate through the other specialist firms dependent on the needs of the service.

The timetable will be fluid. The appointee will have the opportunity to operate independently within the competencies that they hold for specific procedures.

Job description

• The post holder will aim to deliver high quality care with the help of the existing surgical team.
• The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate.
• The post holder will participate in the weekly-on-call system of care.
• The post holder will observe and comply with clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures (including local and national employment and personnel policies) agreed with employees and management.
• The post holder will be closely involved in clinical audit and other clinical governance issues.

About us

The individual appointed to this post will join the Trust's highly motivated multidisciplinary team, led by 16 Consultant General Surgeons and 7 consultant HPB Surgeons, in addressing the challenging demands of the speciality.

There will be opportunities to assist with major cases in General Surgery. The number of clinical commitments will depend on service requirements and remaining opportunities will include on-call duties and the management of the Emergency Surgical Unit.

We cover the following:

• Inpatient Elective (planned) - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital.
• Inpatient Emergency (Unplanned) - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital.
• Day Case (Same Day Service) - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital & Burnley General Teaching Hospital.
• Elective one night stay- Burnley General Teaching Hospital
• Outpatients - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, Burnley General Teaching Hospital, Clitheroe and Rossendale.
• Diagnostic - Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital.