Senior Clinical Fellow in Upper GI Surgery
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
PLEASE NOTE: this post is to fill a Deanery SpR gap from 02/04/2025 - 31/03/2026. Possibility to extend contract beyond this date should there be a further gap but this is not guaranteed.
King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts. This unique combination brings together one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts.
The driving purpose behind King's Health Partners is to continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and well-being for patients and people everywhere, by combining the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver ground-breaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Participation in outpatient clinics
2. Participation in MDMs
3. Lead daily ward rounds
4. Communicate with and advise external referrals
5. Surgery outcome/theatre exposure
6. Pancreatic resection (open and laparoscopic)
7. Liver resection (open and laparoscopic)
8. Bariatric surgery and surgery for benign UGI conditions
9. Elective and emergency general surgery
About Us
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
Job Responsibilities
King's provides a comprehensive medical and surgical bariatric service for adults in line with NICE guidelines. King's is a preferred provider for bariatric surgery, offering a full range of procedures including gastric banding, gastric bypass, duodenal switch, sleeve gastrectomy, and complex revision surgery laparoscopically.
The Bariatric service is part of the Bariatric/Upper GI firm and consists of the medical staff as well as dieticians, specialist nurses, and specialist physicians. There are dedicated bariatric clinics and a joint specialist MDT with GSTT and Bromley. King's performs around 600 Bariatric operations each year.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Experience
* Full registration (or eligible for full registration) with the General Medical Council
* Full-time (or equivalent part-time) hospital service in the ST1-2 grade or higher
* Experience in General Surgery at Registrar level
* Research & Publications
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Salary: £61,825 to £90,532 per annum not including London Weighting.
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