Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

§  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

Working for our organisation

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 trust has a separate registration to provide continuing health care at the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxio-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.

The trust provides some highly specialised tertiary services, including bariatric surgery and the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit. It is one of London’s designated perinatal centres and provides a range of highly specialised obstetric and neonatal intensive care services.