# Junior Clinical Fellow Hepato-Bilial Surgery > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-clinical-fellow-hepato-bilial-surgery/fe797005-7e26-4a0b-b95a-f3f2efa4d082 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/junior-clinical-fellow-hepato-bilial-surgery/fe797005-7e26-4a0b-b95a-f3f2efa4d082.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** King's College Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** General Surgery - **Grade:** Junior - **Salary:** £52,656 per annum, plus London weighting £2,162 - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (on-call commitment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (On-call commitment) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-29T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-15T13:11:46.940Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Junior_Clinical_Fellow_Liver_HPB/Junior_Clinical_Fellow_Liver_HPB-v8232176 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8232176?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview King’s Health Partners is a pioneering collaboration between King’s College London, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. This unique combination brings together one of the world’s leading research led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. The driving purpose behind King’s Health Partners is to continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and well-being for patients and people everywhere, by combining the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver ground-breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. ### Main duties of the job The Liver service at King’s College Hospital is one of the largest comprehensive clinical liver programme in the world. It provides an integrated investigation and treatment service for all types of acute and chronic liver diseases as well as research into pathogenesis and future patient management. Routine and emergency cases are accepted from District HA and Supra-regional contracts as appropriate to the core services of liver transplantation, hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, liver intensive care and general hepatology. There is also close co-operation with the Paediatric Liver Services. The HPB service currently performs around 600 major resections each year, with at least 10 operating theatres dedicated per week. The liver transplant programme currently performs around 270 transplants (approximately 230 adult and 50 paediatric) each year. The programme promotes an ethos of innovation and research. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - The Junior Clinical Fellow posts advertised combine clinical work and research opportunities. - The post-holders are expected to spend significant time in research. Projects may be purely clinically based or may have a laboratory component within the laboratories of the Institute of Liver Studies. The positions are for one year initially, but it may be possible to extend a contract depending on satisfactory progress and mutual agreement. There are opportunities for MD or MS. - The clinical component of the posts is to provide cover for the HPB inpatients. This is provided on a rotational basis providing 24 hour cover 7 days a week. - The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to make to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role. These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times. - The post holder has a general duty of care for their own health, safety and well-being and that of work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital, in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post. - To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations. - To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff. - To be responsible, with management support, for their own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues. - All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication. You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Eligible for registration with the GMC - Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate - Core trainee experience, or equivalent in General Surgery. - Appropriate level of clinical knowledge - The ability to communicate with clarity and intelligibility in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade, negotiate. - Evidence of participation and active involvement in an audit project - Understanding of the principles of medical audit **Desirable** - Evidence of teaching experience; involvement in organised teaching of undergraduates. - Previous involvement in research project(s) - Previous experience in HPB/transplant surgery - Understanding of NHS, clinical governance & resource constraints. - Basic Surgical Skills - ATLS ## Documents - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [jd & person specification (pdf, 462.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10604387) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.