Senior Clinical Fellow Gastroenterology (Endoscopy IBD

Senior Clinical Fellow Gastroenterology (Endoscopy IBD) NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area Gastroenterology Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (Full rota) Job
-SUWON-MS-8185149-S6

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town OXFORD Salary £76,582 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/08/2026 23:59

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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and 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 its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

Up to one advanced inflammatory bowel disease full-time fully-funded Fellowships are available at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They are designed to complement the existing gastroenterology service and offer advanced training in IBD. These post, available from March 2024, will involve 12 months as an advanced IBD Fellow (2 IBD clinics per week, plus IBD MDT, luminal xray meeting, IBD endoscopy, plus coeliac clinic for 6 months).

The two IBD fellowships are designed to complement each other, such that the Fellows develop advanced IBD knowledge and management skills with appropriate support. Typically, the IBD SCF will spend 6 months fulfilling IBD SCF role, and 6 months as IBD + coeliac SCF role. As with all our SCF posts, the principle is that there are 6 clinical and 4 academic sessions/week, the academic sessions being allocated 1 each to clinical trials, a personal project, teaching and administration.

As with all 6 Senior Clinical Fellows in Oxford, one of the endoscopy sessions is flexible and may need to be worked on a Saturday. The John Radcliffe provides an integrated service with Horton General Hospital.

Clinical activity will be under the supervision of Dr Emma Culver (Fellowship Programme Director), and Dr Oliver Brain (IBD Lead), or nominated Consultant colleague. Inflammatory bowel disease is one of the particular strengths of the department, with a combination of clinical and basic science expertise whose integration is a singular feature of our translational unit. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease or intestinal failure are jointly managed between medical and surgical teams.

The medical service consists of Prof Travis, Prof Satsangi, Dr Brain, Dr Walsh, Dr Palmer, and Dr Ambrose. The consultants are clinically supported by four IBD nurse specialists, one biologics nurse, Gastroenterology Dietitians, and a two Gastroenterology Pharmacists (one a Consultant Pharmacist). There is close liaison with the Intestinal Failure team, and Paediatric Gastroenterology, especially for adolescent IBD.

These consultants all contribute to the IBD service, and have a range of subspecialty clinical and research interests. Prof Travis is internationally recognised for the assessment and management of acute severe UC, endoscopic scoring, and clinical trials. Prof Satsangi has international expertise in IBD genetics, and active 2 research in epigenetics and predictors of treatment response. Dr Walsh is the Endoscopy Lead and has active research in real-time patient data monitoring, and the relationship between stress and disease flares.

Dr Palmer is the lead for IBD…