Job description

Are you looking to progress your career in surgery whilst working at a major London teaching hospital? This is an exciting time for you to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a trust grade doctor and become part of our Locally Employed Doctors (LED) Programme.

We are recruiting for ST1/2 equivalent surgical rotations. Suitable candidates will have completed Foundation Training or equivalent and have a keen interest in surgery.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust with access to world class training facilities. The surgical rotations commence on August 2nd2023 for 2 years until 5thAugust 2025 and are designed so you can obtain core surgical training equivalence (but are not a numbered training post).

Successful candidates will have

• A named Educational Supervisor for the duration of their post
• 10 days study leave/study budget equivalent to a HEE core surgery trainee
• Paid access to ISCP e-portfolio
• Interim Progress Reports and an Annual Review Process
• Access to opportunities for quality improvement, research and relevant teaching
• The Imperial College Department of Surgery and Cancer will offer trainees on this rotation a £7325 Scholarship to support the second year of their MSc in Surgical Innovation programme.
• A rotational programme overseen by Locally Employed Doctor Training Programme Director, Dr Dheeraj Kalladka, and supported by Jennifer Shelden, Programme Manager

The Surgery Locally Employed Doctor rotations available for the two year period from 2ndAugust 2023 are: -

ENT

Year 1, ENT/Intensive Care and Year 2, ENT/Neurosurgery (4, 6 month posts over 2 years)

Plastic Surgery

Year 1, ENT/Vascular Surgery and Year 2, Plastic Surgery at Charing Cross/ Plastic Surgery at St Mary’s (4, 6 month posts over 2 years)

Vascular Surgery

Year 1, General Surgery/ Plastic Surgery at St Mary’s and Year 2, Neurosurgery/Vascular Surgery (4, 6 month posts over 2 years)

Please specify which of the rotational stream(s) (ENT, Plastic Surgery or Vascular Surgery) you are interested in on your application. Successful candidates will be appointed to one of the two year rotations as above.

Please note that the order of the posts will vary within each year, but posts for each rotation are fixed and will be in the year of the rotation as stated.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

ENT

The ENT/Head and Neck department serves a population of approximately 2.8 million people living in the North West Thames region, and beyond. The Department also has an extremely busy outpatient service that sees over 15,000 new, and 20,000 follow up outpatients each year. As well as general ENT work in adults and children the department manages a significant majority of the major complex head and neck cases in West Central London and North West Thames.

Neurosurgery

The West London Neurosciences Centre serves a population of approximately 2.2 million people living in the North West Thames region and beyond and forms part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and now encompasses three sites (Charing Cross, St. Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals). We offer a full range of neurological and neurosurgical services supported by a neurophysiology service and specialist neuroradiology support, including interventional neuroradiology. Our services are closely integrated with the Major Trauma Centre at St. Mary’s Hospital, and with the Hyper-Acute Stroke Unit at Charing Cross Hospital.

Plastic Surgery

The Plastic Surgery Service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust offers a full range of Plastic Surgery procedures to local residents and a nationwide service to those requiring the unit’s specialist expertise. The Department supports the Major Trauma Unit at St Mary’s. Inpatient services comprise general Plastic Surgery and the specialist service of breast reconstruction, extremity reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction and elective hand surgery. Inpatients are accommodated in one Plastic Surgery ward and surgery is carried out in dedicated operating theatres. There is, in addition, an excellent Day Surgery Unit where both local and general anaesthetic day surgery lists are undertaken. There is a close relationship with many other departments across all the hospitals in the Trust and involvement in the multi-disciplinary head and neck oncology clinic, skin cancer clinic, lower limb clinic and breast reconstruction clinic.

Vascular Surgery

The Vascular Surgery directorate is primarily based at St Mary’s Hospital with sessions at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. We also support satellite services at both West Middlesex Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. We receive around 5,000 new general vascular referrals annually, including both GP and tertiary referrals. Our Vascular Surgery team currently perform over 1,500 day case surgeries per year and 500+ inpatient operations as part of our elective care pathway. The team also perform more than 600 non-elective procedures on an annual basis. The Vascular Department is a specialised tertiary centre and the Vascular hub for Northwest London; a National referral centre for specialist conditions such as thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid disease and arteriovenous malformations making the environment ideal for those who are pursuing a career in the specialty. The department has a specialist interest in aneurysm surgery, complex endovascular and robotic interventions, carotid surgery, diabetic foot disease, venous disease pathologies and arteriovenous malformations. The service has close links with the interventional radiology, diabetes and endocrinology, stroke services, renal, major trauma and cardiac surgery services.

General Surgery

The General Surgery Service provides a full range of diagnostic tests, scans and examinations for patients with hernias, lumps and bumps, gallstones and general abdominal conditions. We have access to some of the best diagnostic facilities in the country, and our consultant pool includes world leaders in a number of surgical specialties, including upper gastrointestinal (GI), colorectal and bariatric surgery. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is a pioneering centre for minimal access surgery.

Intensive Care Medicine (St Mary’s)

Based at St Mary’s Hospital, where the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) comprises a 32 bedded modern facility expected to admit over 1000 patients per year. The case mix is a varied mixture of complex trauma, surgical and acute medical patients. Consultants supervise and support a team of junior doctors working on the unit. Two rosters of junior doctors work within the unit at Registrar/Senior clinical fellow and core trainee/clinical fellow levels.