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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Junior Clinical Fellow (F3) in GI Surgery
Closed for applications on: 4-Apr-2025 12:21
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-Apr-2025 12:21
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (N/A)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Successful applicants would also need to work at our off site location in Queen Mary Hospital in Sidcup)
Salary
- Salary
- £49,909 - £61,825 p.a excl LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow)
Specialty
- Main area
- Upper GI Surgery
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Applications are invited for Trust Doctors at JCF/CT/F3 level (Nodal Point 3) within Gastrointestinal (GI) surgery in the directorate of Gastrointestinal Medicine and Surgery from August 2025 (four posts) and October 2025 (one posts).
The posts are based at St Thomas’ Hospital and are for twelve months.
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The posts involve active involvement in a busy emergency general surgery team in a 1 in 8 rota including dedicated emergency theatre sessions. Time in elective GI surgery includes day surgery and main theatre and exposure to complex tertiary surgery.
Upper GI at St Thomas’ is the designated the regional unit for gastro-oesophageal malignancies and also provides surgery for upper gastrointestinal benign disease. There is also a tertiary endocrine surgical service for thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal disease.
Lower GI Unit has special interests in inflammatory bowel disease surgery, locally advanced, recurrent rectal cancer resection and laparoscopic and robotic surgery and has a tertiary referral pelvic floor unit, with regular MDMs held in each of these subspecialties.
Each JCF has an assigned Educational Supervisor and participation in audit and research is encouraged. There is ample opportunity to enhance surgical experience by performing operations under supervision, assisting at more complex operations and practising surgical techniques in the simulation centre. Previous post-holders have an excellent track record in successful appointment to core training programmes through national selection.
This job does not carry Postgraduate Dean’s approval.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust values
Our Trust values define who we are as an organisation and help shape our culture. They guide us in all our behaviours, actions and interactions which underpin how we do things.
These values were developed with the input of almost 1,800 colleagues. This has ensured that that they reflect what has changed both in our organisation and the wider world, and that they express what we want to be like, both now and in the future.
Whether you work at Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital, our off-site offices, or in our community services in Lambeth or Southwark, our values are relevant to you.
The values were launched in 2024, at the same time as our Trust strategy. The strategy sets out ‘what’ we will do, the values are the ‘how’ we will do it.
Our values...
Caring – we put patients first
Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification attached to advert details for main responsibilities and role requirements.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration and hold a license to practice
- FRCS or at least working towards FRCS
Desirable criteria
- Specialty qualification, and/or higher degree (MD/MS/PhD)
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous Upper GI experience (benign or resectional) Competent General surgeonng (or equivalent)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team Good Communication Skills
Desirable criteria
- Presentations at national Meetings
Research:
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Peer Review publications
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate Teaching and postgraduate Training
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
Other
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical guideline development Appraisal training
Managment
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
Desirable criteria
- Management training or qualification Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah Wheatstone
- Job title
- Consultant Emergency General Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
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