The post holder will assist in providing a clinical service in elective and Vascular Surgery to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include undertaking outpatient clinics, daytime operating lists and out of hour's emergency operating lists under the supervision of Consultants. The unit has a strong reputation for high quality surgical training and our Centre current workload is ideally suited for vascular surgeons who wish to improve their knowledge and technical skills in all aspect of vascular surgery.Main duties of the job The Directorate of Vascular Surgery provides inpatient, emergency and day case surgery to the catchment population. The vascular Unit is extremely well organised and has the following facilities:

• A dedicated 18 bed vascular ward (B20)
• A Vascular laboratory which support out-patient clinics and duplex scanning AM and PM Monday to Friday for one stop assessment of new referrals
• A dedicated angiography room across the corridor from the vascular theatre, providing access to endovascular operations including EVARs and hybrid lower limb revascularisations.
All arterial surgery is performed at the RBH, supported by a 20 bedded Critical Care Unit run by specialist Intensivists, a 4 bedded Post-Operative Care Unit, and a full range of diagnostic and interventional radiology services. Planned day case varicose veins procedures are predominantly performed place in the Day-care unit at BGH. The operating schedule is efficiently structured in keeping with modern tertiary vascular unit principles. There are 5 full-day (2 sessions each) vascular elective lists weekly. In additional, there are 3 vascular lists (1 session each) on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, ring-fenced for acute cases such as bypass grafts, carotid endarterectomies and hybrid procedures. In keeping with recently published GIRFT report, the ratio between scheduled and unscheduled arterial operations may change and theatre allocation may expand further.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust. ELHT provides Safe, Personal and Effective care to a population of more than 500,000. Secondary care services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBH) and Burnley General Teaching Hospital (BGH).The RBH site and Phase V at BGH are significant PFI developments. In 2006 a service reconfiguration, 'meeting patients needs' was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services, and the only Emergency Department (ED), in East Lancashire. Since 2012, RBH has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network alongside the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The ED at RBH is supported by Urgent Care Centres (UCC) at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington. Burnley is the site for the East Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre with an in-patient obstetric unit. There is a midwife led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn. Breast care services are based on this site. In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres. The Trust is also a tertiary referral centre for hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.