Clinical Fellow in Hepatobiliary & Transplant Surgery

Job overview

This post was created to provide support for the Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery activities at Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust. The applicant should have some experience in liver transplantation. This is a specialised post and it is expected that applicants may come from a paediatric surgical background or from a transplantation background.

The successful applicant will be based within the Liver Unit at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) and take part in the registrar on-call rota within the Transplant Team. This post is for one year.

Main duties of the job

Day time clinical duties will be shared between the medical and surgical middle grade doctors. Depending on the level of experience of the appointee, they will be allocated to either Tier 1 or Tier 2.

Tier 1: Duties include day to day management of all hepatobiliary and transplant inpatients, out-patient clinics and assisting in theatres. This will include admitting and assessing elective and emergency admissions, peri-operative management and seeing patients in clinic alongside the consultant or specialty doctor. They will have opportunities to develop their surgical skills.

Tier 2: Duties will include supervision of the day to day management of patients, reviewing admissions, instituting management plans with consultant supervision. They will be expected to see patients in clinic under consultant supervision. This role is suited to a more experienced trainee and will include responsibilities for supporting and training Tier 1 staff and organising the formal training programme.

On call duties will be shared with the specialty doctor and four clinical fellows in paediatric hepatobiliary and transplantation. On-call is on 1:3 partial shift basis for all forms of transplantation, HPB surgical emergencies and urgent surgery pertaining to the multi-organ transplant programme. The fellows and registrar will also have the opportunity to participate in the clinical and academic activities of the adult Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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.