# Senior Clinical Fellow - UGI > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-ugi/13088b4c-f218-4d2f-9593-3b2a6a9350c2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-ugi/13088b4c-f218-4d2f-9593-3b2a6a9350c2.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:** Senior - **Salary:** £76,582 - £98,448 per annum, plus London allowance £2,162 - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T09:30:45.530Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Upper_GI_Surgery/Upper_GI_Surgery-v8323306 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8323306?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post will be based at Denmark Hill, and this will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: - - The provision of a first class clinical service. Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty. Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP. Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies. Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans. Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust. ### Main duties of the job The overall objective of the Program is to train individuals who will be specialists in the field of Minimally Invasive HPB and UGI Surgery. It is essential that the fellow have previous experience at a reasonably senior level to allow them to take advantage of the training opportunities available in the unit, and also to ensure that they will be able to manage a busy unit with complex upper GI and hepatobiliary problems and high morbidity patients e.g Bariatric. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The expectation is that the postholder will experience and achieve the following: - Outpatient and ward - Participation in outpatient clinics - Participation in MDMs - Lead ward daily ward rounds - Communicate with and advise external referrals 6 Surgery outcome/ theatre exposure - Pancreatic resection (open and laparoscopic) - Liver resection (open and laparoscopic) - Laparoscopic/ open cholecystectomy - Surgery for benign HPB conditions - Bariatric surgery and Surgery for Benign UGI conditions - Elective and Emergency General surgery Academic outcome The post holder will be expected to conduct clinical research under the direction of Prof Ameet Patel. The goal will be to present papers at meetings such as the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), and the World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery. Subsequent manuscripts that will be published in peer reviewed journals are expected. Attendance at a minimum of one major meeting per year is mandatory, but the fellow may present his or her work at as many meetings as abstracts are accepted. - Management/ administration - Participation in M&Ms - Participation in Multidisciplinary team meetings - Supervision and teaching of junior team members - The principal administrative duty of the post-holder will be prompt communication about, and careful follow-up of patients seen in the outpatient clinic. - Accept referrals from within and without the Trust by telephone and via the electronic referrals system. ### 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 ### Higher Qualifications **Essential** - MRCS or equivalent. ### Training & Experience **Essential** - Wide experience in all aspects of General Surgery, culminating in award of CCT or equivalent. ### Audit & quality improvement **Essential** - Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit and quality improvement. ## Documents - [jd (docx, 167.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10708141) - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [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.