Clinical Endoscopy Fellow

The post will comprise of 6 service endoscopy lists. Additional lists for further training in Advanced Endoscopy are tailored to your training needs. There will be the option of assisting with occasional clinics and or Capsule Endoscopy reporting, as best suits the successful candidates interests and requirements. It is a department where all aspects and a large number of Advanced Endoscopy (complex diagnostic assessment, RFA, EMR, ESD, FTRD, POEMS etc) and therapeutic ERCP/EUS are performed. This provides great opportunities for research and training.

It is not expected that there is ward work or on-call commitments but this could be reviewed if desired. There will be excellent opportunities for research projects within advanced endoscopy and it may suit a Specialist Registrar who is mid way through their training or has completed their training and is keen to undertake some further training in endoscopy before moving to a Consultant role.

We are looking to appoint an Endoscopy Fellow to the Department of Gastroenterology at Queen Alexandra Hospital (QAH), Portsmouth which is a busy District General Hospital caring for a population of over 600,000.

The Endoscopy Department at QA Hospital has an international reputation as Centre of Excellence in Endoscopy. Professor Pradeep Bhandari leads the very active endoscopy research programme and supervises a team of four research fellows and 2 full time research nurses. We participate and run several national multicentre trials. We have an excellent publishing track record and will support the endoscopy fellow to contribute to this.

As a National JAG Training Centre, endoscopy training in QAH is renowned. As part of SEETA we run JAG courses such as the Basic Gastroscopy, Colonoscopy and Train the Trainers. We run an annual International Advanced Endoscopy Symposium with a wide range of national and international expert faculty. In addition, we run endoscopic submucosal dissection and advanced therapeutic endoscopy workshops (as part of the BSG ESD working group).

We have a regular educational session for all gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy medical staff as part of our commitment to CME on a Friday. This session includes case presentations, governance topics, talks from invited speakers and IBD MDT., Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.