Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (One year)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Full rota)
- Job ref
- 321-SUWON-MS-7152346-S6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- OXFORD
- Salary
- £70,425 £70,425.00 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology (Endoscopy)
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
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. 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.
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 have 1 Endoscopy full-time fully-funded Fellowship available at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They are designed to complement the existing gastroenterology service
and offer advanced training in endoscopy. The posts, available from September 2025 will involve 12 months as an advanced endoscopy Fellow (4-5 endoscopy sessions and 1-2 clinics/week). The OUH endoscopic fellowships are designed to complement each other, such that our Fellows develop advanced skills with appropriate support. Typically the endoscopic SCF will spend 6 months fulfilling endoscopic SCF1 role, and 6 months as endoscopic SCF2 role. As with all our SCF posts, the principle is that
there are 6 clinical and 4 academic sessions/week, the academic sessions being allocated 1 each to clinical trials, a personal project, teaching and administration. As with all 6 Senior Clinical Fellows in Oxford, one of
the endoscopy sessions is flexible and may need to be worked on a Saturday. The John Radcliffe provides an integrated service with Horton General Hospital.
Main duties of the job
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Clinical activity will be under the supervision of Dr Oliver Brain (Fellowship Programme Director) , Professor James East (Director of Endoscopy ) and Dr Rebecca Palmer(Advanced Endoscopist). Interventional endoscopy is a particular strength of the Unit, and the service offers advanced endoscopic techniques including EMR and ESD in the upper and lower GI tracts. We are a designated bowel cancer screening centre, with 6 accredited bowel cancer screening endoscopists. We have a broad and productive endoscopic research programme, with subspecialist interest in polyp development and detection, Barrett’s surveillance,
IBD surveillance, and the pathogenesis of GI malignancy. This is fully integrated with the TGU basic science research programmes, such as those led by Prof Simon Leedham into molecular carcinogenesis. More
broadly we have a GI biobank research and ethical framework that facilitates all research projects that require endoscopically-derived tissue samples.
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. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There are six SCFs in total, and these are experienced trainees, often attracted from abroad to complete advanced GI and Endoscopy Training pending a consultant appointment. The other fellowships are focussed
on endoscopy, nutrition, and small bowel transplant, advanced IBD, hepatology, and hepatobiliary intervention. Together the SCFs provide first class service delivery whilst allowing time to support the clinical
research of the department. Inpatient luminal and hepatology sides have three CMT (Core Medical Trainee) posts and a FY (Foundation Year) 1 post, which often attract academic trainees. At the Horton General Hospital (HGH), there are two Gastroenterology StRs.
Great emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary care, with close cooperation with colorectal and upper gastrointestinal surgeons, hepatobiliary surgeons, intestinal transplant surgeons, gastrointestinal histopathology, and radiology. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease or intestinal failure are jointly managed between surgical and medical teams. Five IBD specialist nurses, two Gastroenterology Dietitians and a Consultant Gastroenterology Pharmacist are attached to the team. There is close liaison with Paediatric Gastroenterology, especially for adolescent IBD. The Nutrition and Intestinal failure teams that include separate specialist nurses (vascular access, parenteral and enteral nutrition), dietitians, pharmacists are closely integrated with the unit.
Person specification
GMC
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
- Completion of General Professional Training and 3 years (or equivalent) as Registrar in Gastroenterology
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Trained in clinical gastroenterology, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (>500) and colonoscopy (>200)
- 3 years as Registrar in Gastroenterology
- Research experience
- Able to make independent management decisions, supported by consultant staff
Desirable criteria
- Recent publications in the field of endoscopy or gastroenterology.
- Good Clinical Practice certificate for clinical trials
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a senior clinical fellow (Senior Registrar equivalent) in a large teaching hospital.
- Good personal and interpersonal skills. Excellent spoken and written English. Communication skills should be highly developed.
- Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for modernisation.
- Willingness to commit to at least 12 months’ in the post
- Computing skills: ability to use word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser.
- Management training and experience
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- First author publications and presentation at international meetings (DDW, UEGW or equivalent)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Emma Culver
- Job title
- Fellowship Programme Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Rebecca Palmer(Gastroenterology Consultant)
Advanced Endoscopist
01865 (2)28753
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