Senior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery

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A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Applications are invited for the posts of Senior Clinical Fellow for General, Breast, Colorectal and Emergency Surgery. This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population. This is a one-year fixed term but extendable for the right candidates.

The successful candidate will be participating in the ward rounds, outpatient clinics and assisting in theatres across General and surgical specialties. There will also be opportunities to teach medical students. The successful candidate will participate in General Surgery and emergency theatres. You will have an opportunity to cover breast, colorectal, general and emergency surgery.

The applicants must have MRCS and full GMC Registration.

The appointees will fast track patients through their diagnosis and initiate investigation to provide initial management for patient presenting with acute surgical issues. They will also triage surgical patients to improve the decision making for admission/further referral or ambulation management via the surgical Hot Clinic.

Applications are invited for the posts of Senior Clinical Fellow for the General Surgery Department . This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population.   

The Senior Clinical Fellow in General Surgery will need to have GMC registration and MRCS or equivalent. The ideal candidate would possess good written and verbal communications skills and be a good team player which is an essential requirement for this post.

 

· Participate in 2ww Clinics and outpatients Clinics

· Attend theatres and be part of the CEPOD rota

· The candidate will undertake research and service improvement projects within the division of General Surgery and enhance their clinical portfolio.

· Work in collaboration with the Team of Consultant Surgeons ensuring patients are effectively triaged and reduced unnecessary delays to treatment

· Participate in clinical governance programme including appraisal and research projects leading to publications

· Will have responsibility for providing emergency support to patients at Queens Hospital as appropriate

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them.  For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Rachna Srivastava, Medical Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5904

This advert closes on Sunday 1 Nov 2026