Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 24 months (Fixed term: 24 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 289-PC-199
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London,
- Salary
- per annum plus LW allowance
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
CREHST Surgical Training Program with Interest in Plastics
NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
The CREHST Program (Certificate of Readiness to Enter Higher Surgical Training) has been devised in order to provide trust grade junior clinical fellows a structured training experience culminating in CREHST sign-off (providing requirements are met), allowing application to higher surgical training.
9 roles across 3 themed programs are available as follows. This advert relates to 3 roles that sit in the Plastic Surgery 'theme', as per the below.
The aim is to furnish trainees with broad surgical exposure, whilst allowing focussed development in their chosen speciality, in order to maximise the chances at ST3+ application.
T&O Themed:
14 months T&O, 4 months Plastics, 4 months General Surgery
- 3 roles available
Plastic Surgery Themed:
14 months Plastics, 4 months T&O, 4 months General Surgery
- 3 roles available
General Surgery Themed:
14 months General Surgery, 4 months T&O, 4 months Plastics
- 3 roles available
Main duties of the job
Management of inpatients
- Management of acute presentations during participation in on-call work
- Regular attendance in theatre in order to meet surgical training targets
- Regular attendance in clinic in order to develop knowledge base
- Participation in monthly teaching
- Completion of (ideally) multiple quality improvement/audit projects
- Publication of 1 research paper
- Minimum 1x poster/podium
- Completion of MRCS Part A and Part B during the program
- Fastidious approach to allocated leadership role (e.g audit, rota, teaching coordinator)
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.
We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
● We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
● We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
● We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
● We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
● We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
● We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life
Our values
Our PROUD values demonstrate to staff, patients and the public the standards of care and experience they should expect from our services:
● Putting patients first
● Responsive to patients and staff
● Open and honest
● Unfailingly kind
● Determined to develop
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management of inpatients
- Management of acute presentations during participation in on-call work
- Regular attendance in theatre in order to meet surgical training targets
- Regular attendance in clinic in order to develop knowledge base
- Participation in monthly teaching
- Completion of (ideally) multiple quality improvement/audit projects
- Publication of 1 research paper
- Minimum 1x poster/podium
- Completion of MRCS Part A and Part B during the program
- Fastidious approach to allocated leadership role (e.g audit, rota, teaching coordinator)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Full registration with the GMC
- MRCS part A or equivalent
- Post-graduate qualification
- Other specific attainments
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of achievement of Foundation competencies from a UKFPO affiliated Foundation programme or equivalent by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice including
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- ▪ Have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English
- ▪ Have the following scores in the academic International English Language Testing System (ILTETS). Overall 7; Speaking 7; Listening 6; Reading 6; Writing 6.
- if applicants believe that they have adequate communications skills but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Capacity to operate effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive/pressurised situations. Awareness of own limitations and when to ask for help.
- Capacity to communicate effectively & sensitively with others, able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand.
- Problem solving: Capacity to think beyond the obvious, with analytical and flexible mind. Capacity to bring a range of approaches to problem solving
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andreas Naparus
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3315 8000
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