This senior clinical fellowship sits in the John Goligher Colorectal Unit at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, a large tertiary referral centre for colorectal surgery. The fellow runs ward rounds and clinics independently, takes on theatre lists at a level suited to their experience, and joins the senior registrar on-call rota. Fellows are allocated to one of three subspecialty teams, with the option to focus on one team or split the year across all three. Applicants must have completed general surgery training to CCT level or equivalent, and start dates run from August 2027 to February 2028.
What the job involves
- Ward management
- Running ward rounds and outpatient clinics independently
- Main case operating theatre work
- Day case operating theatre work, with theatre lists run independently at a level suited to experience
- Post-operative intensive care care
- Discussions with relatives
- Initiating and changing treatment
- Research and audit
- Senior registrar-level on-call, non-resident, 24 hours on a 1:9 basis
- Leadership and service improvement roles, where the fellow chooses to take them up
What's required
Qualifications
- Completed general surgery training to CCT level or equivalent
Experience
- Experience to make sound independent clinical judgements and manage a complex patient group day to day
- Ready for consultant practice
What's offered
- Consultant-led training in the operating theatre
- Access to teaching and training opportunities in a large teaching hospital
- Support and encouragement to publish at least one manuscript during the year
- Additional opportunities to develop research, leadership and educational skills
- Elective training opportunities through the on-call system
- Choice of subspecialty focus across three teams
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
