Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow position in Oncoplastic Breast and General Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne.  This post is to commence 6 August 2025 until 4 August 2026.  

The General Surgery Department is part of the busy Surgical Services Directorate, and the Breast service is provided by six oncoplastic breast surgery consultants Mr Robert Thomas, Mr Henry Cain, Ms Lorraine Kalra, Mr Andrew Pieri, Mr Adam Critchley and Miss Jane Carter.  We perform all aspects of oncoplastic breast surgery and work collaboratively with the plastic surgeons within our Trust.

This post is an exciting opportunity likely to be attractive to a senior trainee looking for either further specialist experience in breast surgery prior to obtaining a consultant post, or as a period of Out of Programme Training/Experience.  The successful candidate will join the current SpRs and Fellows covering General Surgery emergencies working to a 1:12 on-call shift rota.  The successful candidate will also obtain experience in a wide range of emergency surgeries as well as elective breast surgery.  The Royal Victoria Infirmary is the Major Trauma Centre for the region and so the successful candidate will gain significant skills in trauma management and surgery.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This post is attached to the Surgical Services Directorate providing General Surgery to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT. The post will be based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in the Breast Surgery Department. The individual will work on the specialist registrar tier and as such be expected to perform duties and take clinical responsibility to this level on a 1:12 full shift basis. This post will be attractive to pre and post-CCT individuals who require additional specialist training prior to applying for a Consultant post.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Andrew Pieri (Consultant Surgeon) on 0191 2825549 or at [email protected] or Mr Jason Ramsingh (Consultant surgeon) on 01912825549 or at [email protected].

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.