Clinical Fellow in Vascular Access and Renal Transplant

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in Birmingham is seeking a Clinical Fellow in Vascular Access and Renal Transplant. This role offers substantial opportunities to engage in clinical activities, including live donor and recipient transplants. Candidates should hold an MBBS and MRCS, and have significant surgical experience. Ideal for a trainee surgeon focusing on vascular or transplant surgery, this position provides a supportive environment for professional growth and research involvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical research or QI project.
• A minimum of 3 years full-time postgraduate training or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 24 months surgical experience at CT level or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to clinical activities within the vascular access and renal transplant team.
• Participate in live donor and recipient transplant surgery.
• Engage in peri-operative care for renal patients.

Skills

Clinical research experience

Surgical expertise

Education

MBBS

MRCS

Full GMC Registration

Job description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Fellow in Vascular Access and Renal Transplant

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Applications are invited for the post of Clinical Fellow in Vascular Access and Renal Transplant Surgery. This post would commence as soon as possible, based at QE Hospital Birmingham. This post would be suitable for someone wanting out of programme training (OOPT)

Main duties of the job

Research Commitment

The post holder will be exposed to the research work currently being undertaken within the Department and has ample opportunity to develop their own interests within this field.

Clinical Commitment

The post-holder will contribute to the clinical activities of the vascular access and renal transplant clinical team.

Multiple dedicated vascular access clinics currently run with clinical and ultrasound facilities to allow comprehensive assessment of patients with vascular access. Vascular access care is provided by a multidisciplinary team with dedicated co-ordinators, radiologists, clinics and theatre lists and a weekly vascular access MDT. There are five all day theatre lists per week and one cystoscopy list.

The post is expected to provide excellent high volume operative experience allowing supervised training in vascular surgery and anastomotic techniques (greater than 400 procedures are performed within the unit per year).

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

This year we anticipate there being approximately 200 renal transplants in total, half of which occur during daylight hours enabling the post-holder to gain significant exposure to renal transplantation over the course of this post.

There will be ample exposure to live donor and recipient transplant surgery and the provision of peri-operative care for renal patients with twice daily combined medical/surgical ward rounds.

This would ideally suit a trainee surgeon with an interest in vascular or transplant surgery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *MBBS
• *MRCS
• *Experience in clinical research or QI project.
• *Full GMC Registration

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years full time post graduate training (its
• equivalent gained on a part time basis) or equivalent
• experience and competencies.
• Minimum of 24 months surgical experience at CT level or
• equivalent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust