Job overview

This position will be based at St George's Hospital as the hub and with spoke responsibilities at Croydon Hospital. 

- Maintenance of high-quality patient centred care for vascular patients. This includes ward rounds, main theatre sessions, day surgery sessions, OPD, on call and MDT.

- Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning

- Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service

- Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity

- Active participation in continuing medical education

- To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team.

- To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery. 

- Contributing to NVR Data and coding

Main duties of the job

The Vascular Surgery clinical service is provided by a group of vascular surgeons who provide a 24-hour consultant led emergency service for the South-West Thames Vascular Network. The managed Network encompasses the following Hospitals: St George’s, Kingston, St Helier, Epsom, Croydon, Queen Mary’s Hospital (Roehampton), Ashford and St Peter’s and East Surrey.  

SGVI has an international reputation for the treatment of complex aortic disease and innovative endovascular therapy for both thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms. There is an extensive endovascular program, which is one of the largest in the UK and involves fenestrated and branch endovascular technology. The Institute also has a well-established carotid practice with support from a multi-disciplinary team of neurologists and stroke physicians.

The treatment of lower limb peripheral vascular disease is assuming a greater focus within the Institute, with the development of an endovascular practice using the newest technologies. Endovascular treatment of patients with lower limb peripheral vascular disease is undertaken by both vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists with a vascular interest.

Working for our organisation

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south-west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences, vascular and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The main hospital site is in Tooting, in south-west London. There are good public transport links with the rest of London, via the Northern Line and local buses. There are main-line rail links (via Underground or buses) at Wimbledon, Balham and central London. There are good schools throughout south-west London. Local attractions include the green spaces of Wimbledon Common and the Royal Park at Richmond and the North Downs, leisure facilities along the Thames, and shopping in Kingston and Wimbledon and Central London. Further afield, the coast of Sussex or Hampshire can be reached in 1^1⁄2 - 2 hours by car.