Clinical Fellow ST3+ in General Surgery

Applications are invited for two full time Clinical Fellow ST3+ doctor in General Surgery. These posts will be for 12 months on a fixed term contract. Ideally, you will be available to commence in post from December 2022 but this could be negotiated.

The Great Western Hospital, Swindon, is a modern 425 bed District General Hospital built in 2002 serving a growing population currently in excess of 310,000 and boasting state-of-the-art facilities.

The Department of General Surgery comprises 11 Consultants, 11 Specialty Trainees/Clinical Fellows ranging from ST3 to ST8 level and 20 more junior level trainees. Particular specialty interest include colorectal, vascular and breast surgery including laparoscopic colorectal surgery and oncoplastic reconstruction. It is a busy clinical environment with a large volume of elective and emergency surgery and scope for personal development. A number of our current trust grade registrars are completing their FRCS examinations.

Swindon is a major town set within the rural beauty of Wiltshire, nestling between the Cotswolds to the North and Marlborough Downs to the South. Travel to major cities including Bristol, Oxford and London is easy with very frequent rail links and within an hour’s journey by rail. The M4 motorway is within a couple of miles for travel by road. Locally, accommodation is affordable for this part of the country and there are excellent shopping, social and sports facilities within easy reach.

The successful candidate will work within one of three teams; GI, Vascular or Breast. Together with their colleagues they will be responsible for the day to day management of their team’s in-patients, perform the duties of the on-call general surgical registrar and attend theatre and out-patients. If appointed you will be one of 10 general surgical registrars who all participate in the on-call with an F1 and an F2 assisting them. The successful candidate also will be expected to participate with the training of junior staff and medical students attached to the general surgery department.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

Service We will put our patients first

Teamwork We will work together

Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service

Respect We will act with integrity

The surgical departments have a long history of surgical rotations, with the emphasis being of training in the environment of a busy, large District General Hospital with consultant teams with excellent links to nearby teaching centres notably Oxford and Bristol. The successful candidates will be attached to one of three firms (two colorectal and one upper gastrointestinal) for appointment, providing on call cover for the team on a EWTD compliant, 1 in 11 rolling rota, and providing ward cover for the team’s in-patients. There is also a second-on-call rota covering the surgical admissions unit during office hours which is 1 in 12. There is ample opportunity for “hands-on” surgical training in the operating theatre. Each general surgical firm consists of a consultant, a registrar, a core trainee/clinical fellow/F2 and an F1. The successful candidate will have opportunity to take study leave to attend examinations and courses as required.

Further details can be found on the attached job description