Senior Clinical Fellow in Transplant & HPB Surgery

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

• Full GMC registration and licence to practise, FRCS or equivalent
• CCT in General Surgery (or equivalent) or within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview or Higher surgical

• Higher Medical Degree
• Evidence of team leadership skills to be able to undertake effectively, the role of a Fellow within a Teaching Hospital
• Organisational skills to be able to undertake effectively, the role of a Fellow within a Teaching Hospital
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS, Experience in HPB Surgery, Transplant and organ retrieval surgery, Independence in Organ retrieval, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

• Emergency and elective operating
• Support of the organ retrieval service
• Outpatient clinics
• Ward rounds and care of inpatients
• Lead the multi‑organ retrieval team (skills necessary to be acquired)

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS 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. The Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton 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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and it focuses on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

The HPB & Oxford Transplant units are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic doctor to join the team working in Transplantation. The Oxford Transplant Centre comprises a separate building including day‑case beds, outpatient clinics, 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 of the Oxford Transplant Centre include the pancreatic islet transplant programme (Director 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.

The Senior Clinical Fellows support the clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre as directed by the Clinical Lead. Clinical responsibilities will include emergency and elective operating, support of the organ retrieval service, outpatient clinics, ward rounds and care of inpatients. Senior Clinical Fellows are expected to have or acquire the skills necessary to lead the multi‑organ retrieval team. Any necessary training will be provided.

The Oxford Transplant Centre 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, which enables free flow of both patients and staff between the two kidney transplant units, as dictated by capacity restraints.

The HPB clinical service carries out approximately 250 major resectional surgical procedures per year and has a substantial workload in benign HPB surgery, inpatient management, outpatient clinics and ward‑rounds. Together with middle‑grade staff and consultants, the Senior Clinical Fellows contribute to specialist out‑of‑hours cover for HPB patients. Oxford has an established robotic HPB surgery programme and opportunities exist for level 2 sign‑off.

In collaboration with the Islet service, the HPB Unit provides a pancreatic auto‑transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation).