Job summary
- Main area
- General Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 297-7778584
- Employer
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Ward 24
- Town
- Gateshead
- Salary
- £49,909 - £61,825 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
In the event of excessive applications being received this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible
IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.
All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.
Job overview
If you are looking to enhance your endoscopic skills to reach the next level of advanced endoscopy practice, we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking to appoint an Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellow to work jointly between Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and Darlington Memorial Hospital, County Durham for 12 months, to train in Advanced Luminal Upper and Lower GI Endoscopy. The post also offers an opportunity to carry out endoscopic research, present at national and international conferences and publish in reputed journals
Main duties of the job
A post CCT level Trust Doctor post is available based at both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) starting September 2026 for 12 months within the Gastroenterology Departments at QE and CDDFT.
The post would be ideally suitable for GI Specialist Registrar who has competed registrar specialty training and has a specialist interest in therapeutic endoscopy.
Professor Anjan Dhar (Consultant Luminal Gastroenterologist & Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopist at CDDFT) and Dr Jamie Barbour (Therapeutic Endoscopist and Endoscopy training lead for QE Gateshead) would supervise the trainee.
Working for our organisation
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
QE and Durham and Darlington share a regional Complex Rectal Lesion (CRL) MDT meeting every fortnight. We discuss complex polyp cases from across the region. Attendance and supporting the endoscopy team for these meetings would be expected. This will give good insight into the therapeutic potential now available for patients.
Therapeutic lower GI training will consist of a therapeutic training list every week and 1-2 service lists/therapeutic lists per week.
Dr Barbour offers ESD for lower GI lesions both in endoscopy and in theatre. Understanding the indications and the patient pathway for ESD would be an important aspect to the attachment. Supporting ESD lists will also be part of the fellow training. Training will consist of up skilling in lesion recognition and piecemeal EMR first and then moving onto ESD when appropriate
Dr Barbour and Professor Dhar offer POEMs procedures in James Cook University Hospital (JCUH) in association with Prof Vishwanath. We have a regional Achalasia MDT every month and we perform POEMs procedure every month at JCUH. Preparing these MDT meetings and ensuring the outcomes are communicated to referring teams would be expected as well as attending a POEM list or 2 as an observer.
Professor Dhar has specialist interests in Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Diseases and there will be opportunities to be involved in training in lesion detection in Barrett’s surveillance, endoscopic mucosal resection and Radiofrequency Ablation. Oesophageal, pyloric and colonic dilatation, stent placement, Wireless pH capsule placement, stentfix and OTSC clip application and IBD assessment and surveillance. Research opportunities in cutting edge technology such as Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy and EndoFLIP are expected to be available.
Person specification
Basic Medical Qualification
Essential criteria
- GMC Registration
- Other Medical Qualification
ALS Provider Status
Essential criteria
- ALS Provider Status
Experience
Essential criteria
- 12-18 Months SHO Experience
- 12 Months NHS Experience
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Experience in Specialities Allied to General Medicine
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
- Laura Maitra
- Job title
- Service Line Manager - Medicine 2
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 445 2328
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