Senior Clinical Fellow (ST3+) - General Surgery

Job overview

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit four Senior Clinical Fellows within the specialty of General Surgery

Our ideal candidate would have a minimum of 3 years in General Surgery experience in NHS or Acute Hospital services along with good theoretical knowledge and its application.

The successful appointees will be offered a post until the 5th of October 2025.

You will be part of  a dedicate team and will provide, in conjunction with colleagues, a General Surgical service at Middle Grade, to the Trust as directed by the Consultants.

We welcome informal queries, if you would like to discuss this opportunity any further please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Main duties of the job

You will undertake outpatient clinics seeing follow-up patients and new cases under the supervision of the Consultant.

To assist in theatre with major laparoscopic and open colorectal and general surgical cases and carry out appropriate cases independently under close supervision as needed.

You are expected to be on the surgical on-call rota, resident on-site, at middle-grade level 1-10 variable and may change.

Undertake ward rounds with the Junior Medical Staff for the management of patients.

Provide intermediate level care for emergency admissions to all surgical patients referred to the team from A&E or directly from the General Practitioner to the Surgical Assessment Unit.

Undertake teaching of junior medical staff and other clinical staff as appropriate.

Participate fully in post graduate activities and surgical audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this opportunity.