Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow position in Colorectal Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. This post is to commence February 2026 for 6-12 months. The post will be based within the Colorectal team at the RVI hospital. 

The advertised post is based at the RVI which delivers specialist elective colorectal surgical care and provides the Emergency General Surgery (EGS) service and the Newcastle Major Trauma Centre (MTC). The Colorectal Unit provides secondary care for the people of Newcastle and regional tertiary services. The colorectal team deliver the full spectrum of advanced colorectal subspecialist practice including pelvic floor surgery, inflammatory bowel surgery, intestinal failure, advanced and recurrent rectal cancer, anal and early rectal cancer, abdominal wall reconstruction, endometriosis surgery and advanced proctology. There are close working links through shared operative lists, MDTS and clinics with gynaecology, gastroenterology, paediatric surgery, oncology and urological surgery. 

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This post is attached to the Newcastle advanced and recurrent Colorectal Cancer service within the Surgical Services Directorate providing General Surgery to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT. The post will be based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in the Colorectal Surgery Department. The individual will work on the specialist registrar tier and as such be expected to perform duties and take clinical responsibility to this level. This post will be attractive to pre and post CCT individuals who require additional specialist training prior to applying for a Consultant post.

The Fellowship would be with the advanced cancer team with the purpose of sub-speciality training in both complex cancer and robotic colorectal surgery. It will include both research and clinical exposure. 

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Peter Coyne (Colorectal Consultant, Head of Department) on 0191 2826448 or [email protected] 

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.