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Job summary

Main area
Gastroenterology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (One year)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (Full rota)
Job ref
321-SUWON-6368281-MT04/5
Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
John Radcliffe Hospital
Town
OXFORD
Salary
£55,329 - £63,152 n/a
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/07/2024 08:00

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Senior Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology (Endoscopy)

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit  http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

 


 

Job overview

We have 1 Endoscopy full-time fully-funded Fellowship available at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They are designed to complement the existing gastroenterology service 
and offer advanced training in endoscopy. The posts, available from March 2024 will involve 12 months as an advanced endoscopy Fellow (4-5 endoscopy sessions and 1-2 clinics/week). The  OUH endoscopic fellowships are designed to complement each other, such that our Fellows develop advanced skills with appropriate support. Typically the endoscopic SCF will spend 6 months fulfilling endoscopic SCF1 role, and 6 months as endoscopic SCF2 role. As with all our SCF posts, the principle is that 
there are 6 clinical and 4 academic sessions/week, the academic sessions being allocated 1 each to clinical trials, a personal project, teaching and administration. As with all 6 Senior Clinical Fellows in Oxford, one of 
the endoscopy sessions is flexible and may need to be worked on a Saturday. The John Radcliffe provides an integrated service with Horton General Hospital. 

Main duties of the job

 

Clinical activity will be under the supervision of Dr Emma Culver (Fellowship Programme Director) and Dr Alissa Walsh (Director of Endoscopy) and Professor James East (Advanced Endoscopist). Interventional endoscopy is a particular strength of the Unit, and the service offers advanced endoscopic techniques including EMR and ESD in the upper and lower GI tracts. We are a designated bowel cancer screening centre, with 6 accredited bowel cancer screening endoscopists. We have a broad and productive endoscopic research programme, with subspecialist interest in polyp development and detection, Barrett’s surveillance, 
IBD surveillance, and the pathogenesis of GI malignancy. This is fully integrated with the TGU basic science research programmes, such as those led by Prof Simon Leedham into molecular carcinogenesis. More 
broadly we have a GI biobank research and ethical framework that facilitates all research projects that require endoscopically-derived tissue samples.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here  www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There are six SCFs in total, and these are experienced trainees, often attracted from abroad to complete advanced GI and Endoscopy Training pending a consultant appointment. The other fellowships are focussed
on endoscopy, nutrition, and small bowel transplant, advanced IBD, hepatology, and hepatobiliary intervention. Together the SCFs provide first class service delivery whilst allowing time to support the clinical
research of the department. Inpatient luminal and hepatology sides have three CMT (Core Medical Trainee) posts and a FY (Foundation Year) 1 post, which often attract academic trainees. At the Horton General Hospital (HGH), there are two Gastroenterology StRs.
Great emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary care, with close cooperation with colorectal and upper gastrointestinal surgeons, hepatobiliary surgeons, intestinal transplant surgeons, gastrointestinal histopathology, and radiology. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease or intestinal failure are jointly managed between surgical and medical teams. Five IBD specialist nurses, two Gastroenterology Dietitians and a Consultant Gastroenterology Pharmacist are attached to the team. There is close liaison with Paediatric Gastroenterology, especially for adolescent IBD. The Nutrition and Intestinal failure teams that include separate specialist nurses (vascular access, parenteral and enteral nutrition), dietitians, pharmacists are closely integrated with the unit.

Person specification

GMC

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with GMC

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria
  • MRCP or equivalent
  • Completion of General Professional Training and 3 years (or equivalent) as Registrar in Gastroenterology
Desirable criteria
  • Higher degree

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Trained in clinical gastroenterology, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy (>500) and colonoscopy (>200)
  • 3 years as Registrar in Gastroenterology
  • Research experience
  • Able to make independent management decisions, supported by consultant staff
Desirable criteria
  • Recent publications in the field of endoscopy or gastroenterology.
  • Good Clinical Practice certificate for clinical trials

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a senior clinical fellow (Senior Registrar equivalent) in a large teaching hospital.
  • Good personal and interpersonal skills. Excellent spoken and written English. Communication skills should be highly developed.
  • Experience of teaching undergraduates and trainees
  • Experience of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for modernisation.
  • Willingness to commit to at least 12 months’ in the post
  • Computing skills: ability to use word processor, spreadsheet programme and web browser.
  • Management training and experience

Other Requirements

Essential criteria
  • First author publications and presentation at international meetings (DDW, UEGW or equivalent)

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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
Emma Culver
Job title
Consultant Hepatologist
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Dr Rebecca Palmer(Gastroenterology Consultant)

Advanced Endoscopist

[email protected]

01865 (2)28753

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