Senior Clinical Fellow in Endoscopy

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Clinical Fellow in Endoscopy to join its dynamic team. The role focuses on enhancing advanced therapeutic skills in a supportive environment with opportunities for training and research involvement. Candidates should be JAG accredited and possess the ability to engage in outpatient clinics. This position offers a fulfilling career within one of the UK's most respected NHS trusts, covering a diverse geographical area.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be JAG accredited for GI endoscopy.
• Experience in therapeutic endoscopy is preferred.
• Interest in audit, training, and research is essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy procedures.
• Assist in outpatient clinics and manage cancer diagnosis pathways.
• Engage in teaching and CPD activities.

Skills

Endoscopy

Gastroenterology

Training and Mentoring

Education

JAG accreditation in upper and lower GI endoscopy

Speciality training in Gastroenterology

Job description

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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. This post is is suitable to those in later stages of speciality training or post CCT, those eligible candidates will be placed on the appropriate terms and conditions of Speciality Doctor TCS (2021).

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 in Cramlington. We are looking for an experienced endoscopist who wishes to consolidate their skills through practice as well as develop advanced therapeutic endoscopy skills. The role will predominantly focus on Colonoscopies .

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 the Gastroenterology specialty 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.

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.

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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Richard Sterry Job title: General Manager Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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