Vascular Surgery Junior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

Junior Clinical Fellows IN VASCULAR SURGERY

6 month fixed Term Contract

An exciting opportunity have arisen for a Junior Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery at St George’s Vascular Institute, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holders will have nominated roles as part of the weekly rota mainly covering wards duties and pre op assessment clinics.

The successful applicants will be a team players, but also able to work individually. They will be a confident and clear communicators possessing excellent IT data management and verbal reasoning skills. We are seeking  enthusiastic individuals who can demonstrate excellent attention to detail, accuracy, experience in prioritising workloads and support the present provision of vascular surgical services to the populations of South-West London and surrounding areas as key members of our dynamic clinical team. The post holders will contribute to the Vascular/ Urology/ General Surgery on call rota.

For an informal discussion regarding these appointments, applicants are encouraged to contact:

Mr Iain Roy, Consultant Vascular Surgeon

[email protected]

Interview date:                                  TBC

Main duties of the job

The Vascular Surgery team at St George’s Hospital wishes to appoint 2 Junior Clinical Fellow level trust doctors to join the surgical team. The posts would provide an ideal professional development platform from which the appointee may develop a portfolio of experience, although the post is not part of a formal training programme. The main responsibilities of the post are to care for the patients admitted to the wards for elective or emergency surgery. On-call category 1B 40%, post holders to participate in the Urology/ General Surgery and Vascular Surgery on call rota

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The appointee will have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients under the care of the Vascular Surgery team, including all administrative duties associated with patient care. The appointee will be expected to competent at the ‘senior house officer level’ in all aspects of general, urology and vascular surgery.

The following responsibilities are common to all posts in the Trust and should be included at some point in the job description.

• To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.
• To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
• To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.
• To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.
• To comply with St. George’s Healthcare No Smoking Policies.
• To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.