Senior Clinical Fellow in Transplant Surgery | University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Position Overview

The Oxford Transplant unit is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic doctor to join the team working in Transplantation. The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the country. This is a replacement post. The appointments are on a whole‑time/part‑time basis, but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share. Candidates are expected to be at or close to Post CCT level in competence and training.

Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full‑time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job‑share candidates will receive serious consideration.

Candidates are very welcome to visit the department and are invited to contact the clinical lead Transplant – Srikanth Reddy () and/or Clinical Director, Renal Transplant Urology – Sanjay Sinha (), Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

• Lead the organ retrieval team, including 1:4 weekend coverage (necessary training provided).
• Support the Transplant clinical service flexibly, covering in and out of hours, including clinics, wards and operating theatres; opportunities exist for elective experience in HPB surgery.
• Develop skills in pancreas transplantation, kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, liver and pancreatic resections, vascular access and multi‑organ retrievals.
• Carry out emergency and elective operating, support the organ retrieval service, outpatient clinics, ward rounds and care of in‑patients (as directed by the Clinical Lead).
• Provide specialist out‑of‑hours cover for HPB patients in collaboration with middle‑grade staff and consultants.

• Post CCT level (or close to) competence and training in transplantation or related specialty.
• Experience in organ retrieval, transplant surgery or equivalent clinical activity.
• Ability to lead and manage a multi‑organ retrieval team.
• Willingness to undertake necessary training where required.

The centre comprises a separate building, including day‑case beds, outpatient clinics, a Tissue Typing laboratory and office accommodation. In‑patients are situated nearby. The unit provides a regional renal transplant service for the six counties surrounding Oxford (population about 3 million), supra‑regional pancreas, islet and intestinal transplant services and organ retrieval as part of the National Organ Retrieval Service. Some 250 deceased and living donor transplants and more than 140 organ retrievals are performed per year, together over 400 vascular access and other procedures.

The clinical activities also include the pancreatic islet transplant programme led by Professor Paul Johnson.

The transplant unit is closely associated with major research programmes in transplantation biology within the Oxford Transplant Centre, the NHSBT Transplantation Laboratory and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.

In collaboration with the HPB service, the Transplant Unit also provides a pancreatic auto‑transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation). The Oxford University Hospitals has recently formed a transplant network (COxTNet) in partnership with University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwick, enabling free flow of both patients and staff between the two kidney transplant units, as dictated by capacity restraints.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026.