Senior Clinical Fellow AWR and Advanced Colorectal Cancer

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The closing date is 07 January 2026

This post is for a Senior Clinical Fellow AWR and Advanced Colorectal Cancer in General Surgery to start immediately for a fixed term 12-month position.

This is a whole time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

The successful candidates will be joining an enthusiastic and forward thinking department comprising of 12 Consultants. The department is currently undergoing growth and considerable restructure and the appointment is essential to this.

The successful candidate will be expected to have full Registration with the GMC at the time of application.

The department offers excellent training and development opportunities and the post holders are expected to support the elective and non-elective demand and participate in the daytime and weekend on call rota. The post is offered on the basis that the successful applicant will work flexibly and join the on call rota undertaking General Surgery duties; the rate of resident on call will be 1 in 12 and the successful applicant will be remunerated appropriately for on call work in line with existing.

Main duties of the job:

• Teaching and Education.
• Independent practice.
• Research and publication.
• On-call.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

Closing date: 7th January 2026

Shortlisting date: 8th January 2026

Proposed Interview date: 14th January 2026

Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.

• Applicants must hold full registration with the GMC at the time of application
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualifications
• FRCS
• ATLS
• Robotic experience

• Knowledge/experience of managing General Surgical patients
• Experience and an understanding of audit
• Evidence of active participation in audit
• Evidence and an understanding of research
• Experience of applying sound clinical knowledge and judgment and prioritise clinical need
• Excellent technical competence/diagnostics skills and judgment required
• Evidence of contributing to teaching and learning of others

• Communication skills, capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively to others, able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
• Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
• Awareness of own limitations
• Judgement to work under pressure, capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive/pressurised situations

• We are kind
• We are open
• We are inclusive

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust