Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Surgery and Transplant Anaesthesia
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05)
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months fixed term contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 321-CSS-MS-7280066-S6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Fellowship in Cancer Surgery and Transplant Anaesthesia (ST7)
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05)
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
We are delighted to advertise a twelve-month clinical Fellowship in Anaesthesia for Cancer Surgery and Transplant Anaesthesia. This post is an exciting opportunity for a post-CCT anaesthetist or a senior anaesthetic registrar to join our team and develop their role as an anaesthetist with an interest in transplant anaesthesia. We pride ourselves in training excellence and received excellent feedback from our previous fellow.
The majority of our services are on the Churchill site in the Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre but patients are treated at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the West Wing.
A wide range of surgical expertise is available in the Oxford Cancer and Haematology Centre. Specialist surgery is carried out by the teams responsible for management of the following cancer types:
· Breast
· Gynaecological
· Upper gastrointestinal (including oesophagus and stomach)
· Hepatopancreatobiliary (including liver, pancreas, gallbladder)
· Lower gastrointestinal (including colon and rectum)
· Head and neck
· Thyroid and endocrine cancers
· Urological (including bladder and prostate)
Main duties of the job
The post-holder’s duties will cover in and out-of-hours duties across any of the OUH sites.
Opportunities for teaching, training and research will be available within the fellowship programme and will be agreed prior to commencement of the fellowship.
The post-holder will participate in clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up to date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust.
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust.
The post-holder will assume a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of his/her department. Office accommodation and secretarial support is available for this post.
Please see attached the Job Description for further details.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder’s duties will cover in and out-of-hours duties across any of the OUH sites.
Opportunities for teaching, training and research will be available within the fellowship programme and will be agreed prior to commencement of the fellowship.
The post-holder will participate in clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies.
The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up to date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust.
The post-holder will be required to work within the Trust's management policies and procedures, both statutory and internal, accepting that the resources available to the Trust are finite and that all changes in clinical practice or workload, developments requiring additional resources must have prior agreement with the Trust.
The post-holder will assume a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and the proper functioning of his/her department. Office accommodation and secretarial support is available for this post.
Please see attached the Job Description for further details.
Person specification
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- GMC Registration
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- FRCA or equivalent.
- On GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthetics; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical Degree ATLS, ALS, MOET
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist training in Anaesthesia and experience in multidisciplinary team working in complex cases.
- Interest in research
- Ability to make decisions at ST7 level
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Lower and Upper GI, HPB, Urology, Gynae-oncology, and Transplant Anaesthesia
- Publications/presentations
- Management of complex rotas
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist training in Anaesthesia and experience in onco-anaesthesia and transplant anaesthesia
- Evidence of team leadership skills to be able to undertake effectively the role of a Fellow, in a large multi-site teaching hospital
- Organisational skills to be able to undertake effectively, the role of a Fellow within a large multi-site teaching hospital.
- Management training and experience Commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Good spoken and written English. Communication skills should be highly developed.
- Experience of teaching medical, nursing and PAM, undergraduates and postgraduates
- Experience of routine clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for modernisation
- Computing skills: ability to use a word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser
- Flexible approach to problem solving
- Experience in perioperative medicine-based teaching
- Willingness to conduct and/or supervise audit
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sabeena Sharma
- Job title
- Head of the Anaesthetic Department
- Email address
- [email protected]
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