Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the City of London is looking for a Senior Clinical Fellow in General and Benign Hepatobiliary Surgery. This role involves providing clinical leadership, undertaking surgical outpatient clinics, and participating in teaching. The successful candidate will be a key part of enhancing patient pathways and may engage in endoscopy. Experience in quality improvement is desirable, with training provided. The position includes night shifts on a 1 in 12 rota.

Responsibilities

• Provide a first-class service.
• Lead all staff engaged in the specialty effectively.
• Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.

Job description

A Vacancy at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

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. The key responsibilities include:

• 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

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 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.

Please note that this advert closes on Friday 10 Oct 2025.