Senior Fellowship in Emergency General Surgery

The post-holder will work primarily on the Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU) and in the Emergency General Surgery Theatres on a shift system to provide senior input to general surgical emergency and major abdominal trauma patients, both on the SEU and in the Accident and Emergency Department.

The post-holder will be required to participate in, and lead, programmes for teaching medical students, training junior doctors and in the facilitation of clinical examinations.

Active participation in weekly academic meetings, lectures and journal clubs will be actively encouraged.

The unit is actively involved in local, regional and national research programmes where it takes the lead in many areas. There will be extensive opportunities to be involved in research and audit with the likelihood of publication. The successful applicant will be expected to be involved in the organisation of the Annual Oxford Emergency General Surgery Conference and to fully participate in the Oxford Surgical Collaborative meetings.

The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust.

A full time post as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Surgery is available at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The post will be for a term of 1 year, with the option of extension for a further 1 year, subject to agreement.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has one of the largestEmergency General Surgery Units in the UK.

The Surgical Emergency Unit (SEU) comprises a surgical triage area, 54 dedicated emergency surgery beds, a surgical ambulatory care unit, access to emergency general surgery theatres with timely and appropriate access to all diagnostic services.

The SEU team receives support, over the course of a year, from 14Consultant General Surgeons, 11 surgical ST3+ grades, 10 surgical CTgrades and 72 FY1 grades., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.