Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is appointing a Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery. The role involves assisting in outpatient clinics and theatre lists, enhancing the emergency surgical pathway, and engaging in teaching. Applicants should have an MBBS and experience in laparoscopic surgery. Competitive salary ranging from £44,047 to £67,610 per annum, commensurate with experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in laparoscopic surgery is essential.
• Clinical skills consistent with a senior registrar are required.
• Familiarity with current health service structures is needed.

Responsibilities

• Support supervising consultants across various clinical activities.
• Involve in improving the emergency surgical pathway.
• Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Skills

Basic clinical training in laparoscopic surgery

Registrar grade experience in upper or lower GI surgery

Ability to lead and take responsibility

Experience in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching

Education

MBBS or other undergraduate Medical degree

Job description

Go back Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery

The closing date is 10 October 2025

The Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is appointing a Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery. The post holder will undertake General Surgery and benign Hepatobiliary outpatient clinics and assist on General Surgery theatre lists. There is opportunity for the post holder to get involved in teaching and training, audit and quality improvement work. Interested applicants will also have opportunity to gain experience in endoscopy.

Main duties of the job

It is envisioned that the successful candidate will play an active role in improving the emergency surgical pathway for patients alongside consultants, managers, and the wider hospital team. A particular focus will be the effective running of the CEPOD/ hot gallbladder lists. Experience in quality improvement would be desirable but training can be provided within the Trust.

The appointee will participate in the registrar on-call rota, which will include night shifts. The pattern for these on-call shifts is currently a 1 in 12 rotation with no more than 4 consecutive days/nights. Appropriate zero days are scheduled to ensure rota compliance. Notice of 6 weeks will be given for any changes to the rota pattern.

As an employee of the Trust the post-holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

the provision of a first-class service

effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

active involvement in undergraduate and post graduate teaching and training

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care trust which provides hospital and community health services for Hackney, the City and surrounding communities. The Trust provides a full range of adult, older people's and children's services across medical and surgical specialties.

The trust operates acute services from a single site: Homerton University Hospital, which opened in 1986. Based on an aggregation of ratings across all of the core services provided from the hospital, the hospital has been rated by Care Quality Commission as 'Outstanding'. The hospital has almost 500 beds spread across 11 wards, a ten-bed intensive care unit and maternity, paediatric and neonatal wards. Community services are provided by staff working out of 75 partner sites in Hackney and the City of London. The trust has a separate registration to provide continuing health care at the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxio-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.

The trust provides some highly specialised tertiary services, including bariatric surgery and the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit. It is one of London's designated perinatal centres and provides a range of highly specialised obstetric and neonatal intensive care services.

Job responsibilities

The post will be based in the Department of General Surgery within the subspecialty of General and benign HPB surgery. The post involves supporting the supervising consultants in the full spectrum of clinical activity including main theatres, day surgery theatres, out-patients and ward work. We have recently built two new operating theatres and the services are changing rapidly to adapt to the evolution of our department. Therefore the successful candidate may be expected to support surgeons across the service. This will provide an excellent opportunity to learn from experienced surgeons, particularly as they look to continue to provide high quality clinical care in a post-COVID healthcare environment.

It is envisioned that the successful candidate will play an active role in improving the emergency surgical pathway for patients alongside consultants, managers, and the wider hospital team. A particular focus will be the effective running of the CEPOD/ hot gallbladder lists. Experience in quality improvement would be desirable but training can be provided within the Trust.

As an employee of the Trust the post-holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

the provision of a first-class service

effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

active involvement in undergraduate and post graduate teaching and training

Please view job description and person specification for full details of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MBBS or other undergraduate Medical degree

Experience

• Basic clinical training and experience in laparoscopic surgery.
• Registrar grade experience in upper or lower GI surgery.

Clinical Skills

• Clinical and operative skill levels consistent with a senior registrar would be appropriate

Leadership and professionalism

• Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and respond appropriately to service need
• Familiar with current structure of the health service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Teaching & training

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching

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.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£44,047 to £67,610 a yearper annum (pro rata)