Trust Registrar StR Higher in Colorectal

Plymouth Hospitals do; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK Trust is seeking a Trust Research Registrar for a 12-month role in its Colorectal Surgery department, starting October 2025. Candidates will engage in research projects, cover a consultant-supervised clinic, and receive regular colonoscopy training. This position offers extensive training opportunities in colorectal and general surgery within a high-volume surgical environment.

Qualifications

• Aim for JAG accreditation in colonoscopy.
• Experience in colorectal surgery preferred.
• Prior clinical experience as a surgical registrar.

Responsibilities

• Participate in clinical audits and maintain departmental databases.
• Assist with teaching junior doctors and medical students.
• Engage in after-hours on-call duties as a general surgical registrar.

Skills

Research skills

Endoscopy training

Teaching skills

Education

Medical degree

Job description

Trust Registrar StR Higher in Colorectal

We are seeking to appoint a Trust Research Registrar within the Colorectal Surgery service at University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Derriford Hospital, Devon, starting October 2025 for 12 months.

The role involves research in colorectal surgery, with regular colonoscopy training opportunities. The successful candidate should aim for JAG accreditation in colonoscopy.

This position supports research up to MD level, with projects including anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery and colorectal cancer development. The appointee will also cover a consultant-supervised clinic and participate in after-hours on-call duties as a general surgical registrar.

Responsibilities include working at a level between surgical registrars and consultants, with access to theatre lists for resection technique training, assisting with clinical audits, maintaining departmental databases, and teaching junior doctors and medical students. The role involves participation in the Registrar Acute Surgical Take rota.

Opportunities for developing teaching skills are available, with regular weekly teaching commitments. The department has a busy endoscopy unit, offering supervised or independent colonoscopy experience, depending on skill level and JAG accreditation.

This is a Trust appointment, not a formal training post with deanery or Royal College approval, but it provides extensive training in general and colorectal surgery.

About The Colorectal Service

The service has recently acquired a second DaVinci surgical robot and performs advanced procedures such as pelvic exenteration, laparoscopic pelvic side-wall dissection, intestinal failure surgery, colon capsule endoscopy, complete mesocolic excision, and IBD surgeries including laparoscopic pouch surgery.

We are an accredited center for pelvic floor surgery, performing SNS and laparoscopic surgeries for pelvic floor issues with a dedicated MDT. The unit handles a high emergency workload, admitting around 30 patients in 24 hours, with a dedicated on-call rota for colorectal, OG, and HPB units.

The team comprises 10 consultants, and the department is equipped for a wide range of advanced colorectal procedures. For further details or informal visits, contact Vickie Edwards, Service Line Manager, at [e-mail] or 01752 439279.