Job summary

Senior Clinical Fellow in Breast & General Surgery

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Clinical Fellow in General & Breast Surgery in the West Middlesex University Hospital Site, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust.

West Middlesex site has a long history of pioneering, innovative healthcare. Based in Isleworth it is at the heart of the local community- a modern, award-winning hospital with state of the art facilities.

The successful candidates will be supported to develop their CPD and will be encouraged to link in with the Trust’s many audit and research opportunities. The posts will either be part of the Breast or Colorectal surgical rotations but candidates will also be supported to have learning opportunities within other surgical sub-specialties.

Enthusiastic, reliable, and highly motivated clinicians are invited to submit an application for the post of Specialist Registrar in General Surgery services. The successful candidate will become part of a team comprising of consultants and middle General Surgery department has a strong teaching commitment, with weekly tutorials. There is a well-equipped Postgraduate Centre with library and audio visual facilities on site.

To start as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post will be to assist in clinics and elective theatres. It is intended to offer appointees, where possible, equivalent opportunities for personal development as a SpR, a study leave entitlement and allocated study leave budget.

The timetable is arranged on a weekly basis by the current Senior SpR. You will be allocated to a number of Theatre and Outpatient sessions that will vary each week. Careful attention is made that all middle grades have equal opportunities in these areas.

Daily handover meetings are held at 8 – which requires all clinician who are finishing and starting their shifts to attend.

Academic afternoons are held every Friday. Sessions include audit, mortality and morbidity, clinic pathological conferences, and junior staff teaching, guest lectures, interdepartmental meetings etc. Clinical activities are kept to a minimum to include emergency cover only, so that all members of each team can attend.

In addition, each Consultant firm holds a weekly multidisciplinary team meeting to discuss cases with appropriate fellow professionals. All doctors are expected to keep up-to-date with their clinic letter dictation.

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex – in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.