Senior Clinical Fellow Gastroenterology

Northumbria Group.; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust in England is offering a 12-month fixed-term Senior Clinical Fellow post in Endoscopy. The role provides opportunity to consolidate diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy skills, including ERCP, with supervision from experienced consultants.

You will contribute to outpatient clinics and audits, engage in teaching and research, and benefit from flexible working patterns and generous leave.

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification and GMC registration are required.
• JAG accreditation in upper and lower GI endoscopy is preferred.
• Experience in training, audits and research is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop and consolidate endoscopy skills including ERCP.
• Support clinical work with endoscopy activity and outpatient commitments.
• Participate in teaching, audits and research activities.
• Post is a 12-month fixed-term with a negotiable job plan.

Skills

Endoscopy (GI)

JAG accredited

Teaching/CPD

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC registration

JAG Train the Trainer qualification

Job description

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area Endoscopy clinical Fellow Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

10 sessions per week (Flexible Pattern no on call commitments) Job ref 319-8326393RW

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Northumberland Salary £63,696 - £102,689 pro rata per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Endoscopy. The Gastroenterology Team have a pedigree of leading and delivering high quality gastroenterology services and endoscopy practice across a broad range of subspecialties.

The Endoscopy Department at Northumbria Healthcare is delivered over multiple hospital sites with the acute endoscopy workload including GI Bleed and ERCP cases carried out at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. We are looking for an experienced endoscopist who wishes to consolidate their skills through practice as well as develop advanced therapeutic endoscopy skills through additional supervised training in ERCP.

The candidate will already be performing diagnostic endoscopy and colonoscopy work certified as independent by JAG. They will show an interest and aptitude for training, audit and research and to join activities taking place in Gastroenterology and wider Endoscopy Service. They will be expected to support clinical work attached to the specialty, although this will primarily be endoscopy activity and some outpatient commitment – the job plan for this post will be negotiated with the successful candidate to meet both individual training and service needs.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

This role aimed at candidates who are JAG accredited in upper and lower GI endoscopy and wish to develop and consolidate their skills, alongside developing their own training and experience in ERCP cases. As well as exposure to upper and lower GI luminal therapeutics there is also the opportunity to develop skills in Emergency GI Bleed and Upper GI Therapeutic Endoscopy as part of Acute Rota at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington with Consultant Gastroenterologist mentoring and support.

Outpatient clinic work is an expected part of the post, this will be assisting with the faster diagnosis cancer pathway and also developing skills in assessing patients prior to advanced endoscopy. There is job planned time for administration and CPD, alongside opportunities to participate in teaching and research based on the interests of the postholder.

There are no on-call out of hours commitments associated with this post.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post is for a period of 12 months.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and the specialty, please contact: Dr Tom Lee, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Clinical Lead for Endoscopy on [e-mail]

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC registration at time of application.
• JAG Train the Trainer qualification.

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
• Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
• Confirmed JAG competency for independent practice in Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy.
• Evidence of KPIs exceeding JAG minimum standards for practice.
• Experience of audit projects.
• Evidence of involvement in research.