Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB Surgery

Job overview

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) are inviting applications for the Senior Clinical Fellow in HPB Surgery (Peri-CCT).

The successful candidate will be able take up post for a period of 12 months initially with a view to this being extended by mutual agreement.

The SCF post has been specifically designed to help motivate people further in their careers in Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery.

These posts will allow successful candidates to develop their clinical skills and experience in a hospital with a track record of innovative service delivery, excellence in training and clinical research.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• Participate in the running of department/ward
• Provide surgical clinical supervision of Junior doctors on the wards.
• Participate in the general surgical oncall triage rota at registrar level (There may be an opportunity to work on the 1st on-call rota, dependant on experience)
• Provide senior medical input for non surgical wards when oncall (especially Out of Hours).
• Assist with achieving the DOH Clinical Quality Indicators
• The ability to work well in a multidisciplinary team is essential to this post. You will participate in operational and research projects and the teaching of the Senior House Officers, Medical Students, Nursing staff and other Ancillary staff.

• Supervise, monitor and assist Junior Medical Doctors in the day-to-day management of in-patients in posts.
• Attend and participate in ward rounds as timetabled.
• Take part in timetabled Emergency work.  This will involve contributing senior input to the on-call team and may include any combination of leading the arrest team, running the surgical admissions unit and triage area as the surgical registrar on call, reviewing medical patients onbase wards and providing a medical opinion for patients in other specialities.
• Participate in Surgical Outpatient Clinics.
• Attend weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached a job description which details an overview and  main responsibilities of the job