Colorectal Junior Fellow Liverpool, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a junior Clinical Fellow in Colorectal Surgery (ST3+) at the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In addition to the usual colorectal services,
LUHFT has a number of specialist services including being a regional exenteration centre in conjunction with our colleagues in urology and gynae-oncology.
The LUHFT colorectal cancer MDT is one of the largest colorectal cancers MDT in the country.
The unit also provides a regional Specialist Early Rectal Cancer (SERC), which includes TEMS procedures that the fellow will have exposure to and will be expected to gain expertise in. Advanced laparoscopic and open inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) surgery including pouch surgery, pelvic floor and TEMs services and regional Anal cancer surgery also run within the unit.
The unit also offered a regional peritoneal surface disease surgery in conjunction with gynae-oncologist for recurrent ovarian cancer and fellow is expected to gain training. In addition, a Robotic colorectal programme is well-established and it is routine to offer robotic surgery to suitable cancer patients.
The department works within a JAG accredited endoscopy unit and training or service can be provided to the candidate depending on their level of experience. It will be encouraged that the appointed fellow develops advanced skills in colonoscopy as opportunities are fantastic.
The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of the unit’s clinical work including clinics, operating sessions, Multi-Disciplinary Meetings and ward rounds. The successful candidate will also be required to contribute to the emergency general surgical workload of the team. The post would be ideally suited to a junior fellow looking to gain specialist colorectal surgery experience along with emergency surgery to consolidate their experience before taking up a senior fellow post.
LUHFT colorectal department supported by six Specialist Trainees from North-west Mersey Deanery, three fellows, four core trainees, two research fellows and ten Foundation year doctors.
Successful candidate will be expected to work between RLUH and Broadgreen Hospital to gain maximum surgical and clinical experience. The on call commitment will be at the Royal Liverpool Hospital as the first on surgical registrar.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Each doctor is expected to assist in the care of all patients in the Unit when required to do so. Duties include business, post-take and teaching ward rounds, OP clinics, Operating Theatre sessions, administrative (dictation of summaries, letters, coding etc.) and presentations (M + M, MDT meetings etc.)
The unit performs in the order of 150-200 major pancreatic resections annually, including pancreato-duodenectomy, left pancreatectomy (open and laparoscopic) and chronic pancreatitis surgery. In addition, Liverpool provides complex pancreatitis care for the Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man. This includes a weekly benign MDT, and emergency surgery including Minimally invasive, open and endoscopic necrosectomies. The post will provide exposure to this specialist area of practice.
A successful candidate would expect to take part in excess of 60 major pancreatic resections in a 12-month period.
