Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Blackburn seeks a skilled Vascular Surgeon to deliver comprehensive surgical services. This role involves attending theatre sessions and outpatient clinics weekly, providing on-call cover, and participating in clinical education. The ideal candidate will have a medical degree and specialist training in vascular surgery, with strong surgical and clinical governance skills. Collaborative opportunities for expanding endovascular experience are provided.

Qualifications

• Strong background in clinical and elective vascular surgery.
• Experience with outpatient clinics and emergency operating lists.
• Ability to comply with clinical audit and governance issues.

Responsibilities

• Attend a minimum of three theatre sessions and one or two outpatient clinics per week.
• Provide non-resident on-call vascular cover on a 1:6 rota.
• Participate in clinical education and administrative duties as assigned.

Skills

Clinical service provision

Surgical skills

Endovascular experience

Clinical governance

Education

Medical Degree

Specialist training in vascular surgery

Job description

Overview

The post holder will assist in providing a clinical service in elective and vascular surgery to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include undertaking outpatient clinics, daytime operating lists and out of hour’s emergency operating lists under the supervision of Consultants.

The unit has a strong reputation for high quality surgical training and the centre’s current workload is ideally suited for vascular surgeons who wish to improve their knowledge and technical skills in all aspects of vascular surgery. There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Outpatient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in-patient work would take place at LTH.

The Directorate of Vascular Surgery provides inpatient, emergency and day case surgery to the catchment population. The vascular unit is well organized and has the following facilities:

• A dedicated 18 bed vascular ward (B20)
• A Vascular laboratory which supports outpatient clinics and duplex scanning AM and PM Monday to Friday for one stop assessment of new referrals
• A dedicated angiography room across the corridor from the vascular theatre, providing access to endovascular operations including EVARs and hybrid lower limb revascularisations.

All arterial surgery is performed at the RBH, supported by a 20 bedded Critical Care Unit, a 4 bedded Post-Operative Care Unit, and a full range of diagnostic and interventional radiology services. Planned day case varicose veins procedures are predominantly performed in the Day-care unit at BGH.

The operating schedule is structured in line with modern tertiary vascular unit principles. There are 5 full-day (2 sessions each) vascular elective lists weekly. In addition, there are 3 vascular lists (1 session each) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, ring-fenced for acute cases such as bypass grafts, carotid endarterectomies and hybrid procedures. In keeping with recently published GIRFT report, the ratio between scheduled and unscheduled arterial operations may change and theatre allocation may expand further.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust. ELHT provides Safe, Personal and Effective care to a population of more than 500,000.

Secondary care services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBH) and Burnley General Teaching Hospital (BGH). In 2006 a service reconfiguration, ‘meeting patients needs’ was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services, and the only Emergency Department (ED) in East Lancashire. Since 2012, RBH has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network alongside the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres. The Trust is also a tertiary referral centre for hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.

There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Outpatient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in-patient work would take place at LTH.

Responsibilities

• The post holder is expected to attend a minimum of three theatre sessions per week and one or two outpatient clinics per week.
• The out-of-hour on-call vascular cover will be provided by the successful candidate as a non-resident 1:6 rota. This is a separate rota from general surgery.
• Vascular surgeons have access to a weekly interventional radiology list, offering opportunities to expand endovascular experience.
• As part of the role you will have assigned clinical education, admin & SPA time.
• The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate and will observe and comply with clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures (including local and national employment and personnel policies) agreed with employees and management. The post holder will be closely involved in clinical audit and other clinical governance issues.
• So far as is consistent with the proper discharge of the above duties, the post-holder undertakes to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, and exceptionally to perform additional duties in emergencies or unforeseen circumstances.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025