Job overview

Our gastrointestinal medicine and surgery team (GIMS) forms one of the largest clinical services units in the Trust and provides outpatient care throughout Manchester and inpatient gastroenterology services at Manchester Royal Infirmary, Trafford General Hospital, Wythenshawe Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital. We provide regional services for complex interventional endoscopy, pancreatobiliary medicine as well as neurogastroenterology,and hepatology.

We are the Greater Manchester centre for the Northwest Endoscopy Academy and a regional centre for complex GI haemorrhage and ERCP with comprehensive multidisciplinary support services including vascular interventional radiology and regional surgical services.

Our team includes specialist nurses and dedicated admin support for several elements of the service, including clinical endoscopists, IBD, cancer assessments and hepatology. Endoscopy services are provided at five sites across Manchester, with diagnostics and screening capacity close to patients’ homes. Our therapeutic endoscopy services are comprehensive, including advanced pancreatobiliary interventions (with regular EUS drainage and ablative procedures) and high-level polypectomy, enteroscopy, and portal hypertension therapy. All of our units are equipped with modern Olympus equipment. We are proud of recruiting patients to many high-level interventional and more translational endoscopy studies.

Main duties of the job

Overview: We are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Medical Pancreaticobiliary Fellow to join our highly regarded pancreaticobiliary team at Manchester Royal Infirmary. This position offers an exciting opportunity for clinical and academic development in the field of pancreaticobiliary medicine, with a focus on endoscopic techniques such as Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.