Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our team as a Fellow in Paediatric Colorectal Surgery, working at the Great North Children’s Hospital.

This post is available ASAP/March 2025 for 12 months.

The Royal College of Surgeons England (RCSEng) Paediatric Colorectal fellowship is designed for a period of 12 months.  The successful appointee will be employed as per each centre’s local terms and conditions of employment.  Additional information can be found on the RCSEng website: www.rcseng.ac.uk

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

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 Newcastle post is based in the Department of Paediatric Surgery, in the New Victoria Wing of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, which provides Specialist Paediatric Surgical services to the Northern Region. 

This year will offer specific training in advanced colorectal surgery with Mr Bruce Jaffray and Miss Victoria Lane and would be suitable for a trainee who has completed general training and wishes to achieve a final year acquiring Advanced Laparoscopic Skills before Consultant appointment.

In particular, you will experience Laparoscopic approaches to children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and be expected at the completion of this post to be able to perform resection of bowel affected by Crohn’s disease laparoscopically.  You will be able to complete Laparoscopic Colectomy with minimal supervision. You will understand the steps in Laparoscopic Restorative Proctocolectomy (ileal pouch anal anastomosis, IPAA), and be competent to perform this major procedure under supervision.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Miss Victoria Lane and Mr Bruce Jaffray, on 0191 2825289, or at [email protected] 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.