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- Job reference: 256996
- Salary: Clinical Fellow (£45,504 - £71,550)
- Job closing date: 30/08/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Glasgow Royal Infirmary
- Employment type: Fixed-term
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 20/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
- Department: General Surgery
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is full-time. This is a Fixed term post for 12 months.
The RCS Advanced Colorectal/ Pelvic Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Glasgow Royal Infirmary offers a unique opportunity to develop your surgical skills. This post is one of only 3 Advanced Pelvic Surgical Oncology fellowships in the UK, recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons. The post is designed for doctors who have completed or are close to completing training. The fellowship provides in depth sub-specialty training in a high-volume centre with tertiary referral Colorectal and Gynaecological Oncology services and a National retroperitoneal/ abdominal sarcoma service.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, we would love to hear from you.
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Martha Quinn/Pete Chong, Consultant, Via Alison Farrington, PA to General Manager, 0141 201 6355, Alison.farrington@nhs.scot
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates
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Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the Colorectal and Emergency Surgery elements of the General Surgery syllabus of the United Kingdom’s Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme.
- Understanding of the complexities in the preoperative and perioperative care required by patients with complex pelvic malignancies.
- Understanding of enbloc oncological resection as the foundation of exenterative surgery and of operative approaches based on the concept of pelvic compartments.
Desirable
- Knowledge or experience of clinical and translational cancer research.
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Experience appropriate to a post-CCT trainee in Colorectal and Advanced Pelvic Surgical Oncology.
- Experience in, or willingness to participate in, complex pelvic oncology cases, including beyond TME resections for rectal cancer and pelvic exenteration surgery.
- Participation in the middle grade General Surgery on-call rota, including resident night duty as required.
- The fellow would be expected to attend 3-4 full day operating lists per week including 1 complex pelvic oncology clinic.
Desirable
- Experience in advanced pelvic oncology, including multivisceral pelvic resections/exenterations, combined gynaecological-oncology colorectal resections and emergency laparotomy.
Teaching and Education
Essential
- Participation in the department’s programme of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Contribution to the Monday educational meeting and the surgical grand rounds.
Desirable
- Experience of undergraduate or postgraduate teaching.
Clinical and Technical Skills
Essential
- Ability to develop operative skills in advanced pelvic oncology with a focus on resectional and reconstructive techniques and development of consultant level intra-operative decision making.
- Ability to develop decision making skills in the pre-surgical selection of patients suitable for beyond TME/exenterative surgery.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-consultant/cross-specialty surgical team in the pre-operative preparation and planning of complex cases.
- Ability to understand and contribute to the preoperative and perioperative care required by patients with complex pelvic malignancies.
- Ability to develop multi-disciplinary/cross-specialty team working skills essential for complex pelvic oncology clinical case management.
Desirable
- Experience or interest in radical perineal excision, pelvic sidewall dissection/lateral lymph node dissection, sacrectomy, cytoreductive surgery and reconstructive techniques including vaginal reconstruction and pelvic floor reconstruction.
Teamwork and Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary/cross-specialty team.
- Commitment to clinical and educational development under named consultant Clinical and Educational Supervisors.
- Commitment to audit, research, teaching and participation in departmental educational activities.
Research, Audit and Quality Improvement
Essential
- Contributions to audit and clinical research are encouraged and expected.
- Contribution to a research project resulting in presentation or publication would be expected during the 12-month fellowship.
- Appreciation of the importance of clinical audit and quality improvement projects applicable to complex pelvic surgical oncology.
Desirable
- Participation in a clinical research project resulting in national level presentation and/or publication.
- Experience contributing data to, or working with, collaborative research programmes such as the PELVEX collaborative.
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential
- Doctor who has completed or is close to completing training.
- Training provision is aimed at those within 18 months of completion of training or post-CCT.
- Professional Regulatory Bodies Membership (GMC/GDC) details must be provided on the application form.
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This advert is for Advanced Colorectal/Pelvic Surgical Oncology Fellowship with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, GB. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor General Surgery role. The advertised salary is £45,504 - £71,550. The contract type is Fixed-term. The application deadline is 30 Aug 2026.
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