Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery

Job overview

Applications are invited for the above post to commence following pre- employment checks

LTHTR values extremely its Senior Clinical Fellows and in a first of its kind in the UK, we have agreed and committed ourselves to provide all Senior Clinical Fellows joining the trust and those already working with us, a personal career progression pathway with support to become autonomous practitioners if they aspire to do so.

The new appointee will have duties in the hub and across the spoke sites Wigan, Morecambe Bay or Blackpool. The network has a total of twelve Vascular Consultants, and the successful candidate will be one of a team of 9 Middle Grades working across the four trusts, participating in a “Vascular Surgeon of the Week” and a separate vascular on call and weekend rota.

Main duties of the job

The Middle Grade “Vascular Surgeon of the Week” supports consultant led daily ward rounds, coordination, assessment, and management of emergency referrals. Whilst working as “Vascular Surgeon of the Week”, all elective duties are cancelled.

The post holder will:

Specifically adopt, in conjunction with colleagues, an active role in planning, development and delivery of the vascular service in a busy vascular unit.

Participate in the weekly network MDT meetings with colleagues from all disciplines involved in the care of vascular patients.

Participate in the out of hours vascular on-call rota.

Provide activity support in the non-intervention centre hospital trusts (Wigan, Blackpool or Morecambe Bay).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The final detail will be negotiated and agreed with the successful applicant.

The successful applicant will participate in a planned 1:9 middle grade “vascular surgeon of the week” weekday 8am-5pm rota and a separate 1:9 on-call rota, both based in the Intervention Centre. The vascular surgeon of the week (VSOTW), whose routine duties are cancelled for the week, is responsible for daily ward rounds, emergency referrals and admissions and coordinating and undertaking emergency interventions.

The post-holder is likely to have day case and out-patient duties in the spoke trusts and affiliated hospitals, and he / she will be responsible for assessing in-house referrals arising at these sites. Job plans are arranged in order that each non-arterial trust has a consultant and/or middle grade vascular surgical presence on at least three days per week.

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

• What we can offer
• Job Plan/On-call Requirements
• The Team