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Job summary

Main area
Surgery
Grade
Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 month contract)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
193-MS1182PCG
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
£70,425 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/04/2025 08:00

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery Fellow

Fellow

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust.  Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Job overview

This post is for a Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery Fellow to work within the Colorectal and General Surgery Units at the Royal Berkshire Hospital alongside, and under supervision of, the colorectal consultants. It is intended for a post-CCT Specialist Registrar who has a specialist interest in colorectal surgery who is awaiting a definitive Consultant post. The post will provide generous experience of emergency and elective procedures in both independent and supervised practice. The fellow will have access to operating sessions including, dependent on experience, unsupervised lists. The expectation is that the successful candidate will also be involved in outpatient clinics, endoscopy lists and all aspects of the firm’s clinical and academic activities. They will also contribute to training of core and specialist trainees.

This is a fixed term post for a period of 12 months

Main duties of the job

The fellow will be expected to be involved in all aspects of the Trust’s clinical and academic activities including operative and ward-based teaching of juniors including Core Surgical (CT) and Medical Specialty Registrars (SpR). The position aims to develop competence in minimally invasive colorectal procedures and the Fellow will have the opportunity to work with a number of trainers during the year and will develop their skills in laparoscopic resections, TAMIS procedures and robotic resections.  The fellow will have the opportunity to achieve robotic competencies via the Intuitive Academic Program (depending on previous experience). 

Working for our organisation

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest District General Hospitals in the country. The hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for over 1,000,000 patients across Berkshire. It is Reading’s biggest employer and may form the central hospital for one of the country’s new medical schools.

 

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. As well as General Surgery, the hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities. The trust provides several services Berkshire-wide (e.g. Ophthalmology, renal, radiotherapy). Following the principle of care closer to home, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust offers services from many locations, including King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor, Windsor dialysis unit, West Berkshire Community Hospital, Royal Berkshire Bracknell Healthspace, Townlands Hospital Henley and there are visiting clinics in Wallingford and Wantage

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The fellow will be expected to be involved in all aspects of the Trust’s clinical and academic activities including operative and ward-based teaching of juniors including Core Surgical (CT) and Medical Specialty Registrars (SpR). The position aims to develop competence in minimally invasive colorectal procedures and the Fellow will have the opportunity to work with a number of trainers during the year and will develop their skills in laparoscopic resections, TAMIS procedures and robotic resections.  The fellow will have the opportunity to achieve robotic competencies via the Intuitive Academic Program (depending on previous experience). 

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Education

Essential criteria
  • GMC registered to practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Stonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024Florence Nightingale Foundation

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Zoe McDowall
Job title
Directorate Manager Abdominal Surgery
Email address
[email protected]
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