Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship

Job Summary

If you are looking to enhance your endoscopic skills to reach the next level of advanced endoscopy practice, we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking to appoint an Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellow to work jointly between Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and Darlington Memorial Hospital, County Durham for 12 months, to train in Advanced Luminal Upper and Lower GI Endoscopy.

The post also offers an opportunity to carry out endoscopic research, present at national and international conferences and publish in reputed journals.

A post CCT level Trust Doctor post is available based at both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) starting September 2026 for 12 months within the Gastroenterology Departments at QE and CDDFT. The post would be ideally suitable for a GI Specialist Registrar who has completed registrar specialty training and has a specialist interest in therapeutic endoscopy.

Professor Anjan Dhar (Consultant Luminal Gastroenterologist & Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopist at CDDFT) and Dr Jamie Barbour (Therapeutic Endoscopist and Endoscopy training lead for QE Gateshead) would supervise the trainee.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values are the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can be easily remembered by the simple acronym ICORE
;
Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme () to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

• Date posted: 18 February 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade:
  Doctor - other
• Salary: £49,909 to £61,825 a year Per annum
• Contract:
  
  Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number:
• Job locations:
  Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Ward 24, Queen Elizabeth Ave, Gateshead, NE9 6SX

• QE and Durham and Darlington share a regional Complex Rectal Lesion (CRL) MDT meeting every fortnight. Attendance and supporting the endoscopy team for these meetings would be expected, giving insight into the therapeutic potential now available for patients.
• Therapeutic lower GI training will consist of a therapeutic training list every week and 1‑2 service lists/therapeutic lists per week.
• Dr Barbour offers ESD for lower GI lesions both in endoscopy and in theatre. Understanding the indications and the patient pathway for ESD will be an important aspect of the attachment. Supporting ESD lists will also be part of the fellow training. Training will consist of upskilling in lesion recognition and piecemeal EMR first, then moving onto ESD when appropriate.
• Dr Barbour and Professor Dhar offer POEMs procedures in James Cook University Hospital (JCUH) in association with Prof Vishwanath. We have a regional Achalasia MDT every month and perform POEMs every month paring these MDT meetings and ensuring the outcomes are communicated to referring teams will be expected, as well as attending a POEM list or two as an observer.
• Professor Dhar has specialist interests in Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Diseases and there will be opportunities to be involved in training in lesion detection in…