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About

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, alongside a host of community services.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Contact

Address: Royal Liverpool University Hospital; Mount Vernon Street; Liverpool; Merseyside; L7 8YE
Contact Number: 0151 706 2000

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Ref: 287-RSUR-51-26-A Vacancy ID: 7923677

Senior Clinical Fellow in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Accepting applications until: 21-Apr-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 21-Apr-2026 23:59

Location

Site: Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Address: Prescot Street
Town: Liverpool
Postcode: L7 8XP
Major / Minor Region: Merseyside

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 12 months (12 months Fixed Term)
Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £65,048 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (MT04)

Specialty

Main area: Senior Clinical Fellow in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Component

Diagnostics & Breast Screening:

Regular rapid diagnostic and screening assessment clinics are performed on the RLH & AUH sites; these are supported by Consultant Radiologists and Advance practitioners (both radiographic and nursing). We offer Mammographic, Tomosynthesis, Ultrasound and MRI breast imaging as appropriate. Vacuum Assisted sampling via all modalities is available for both diagnosis and therapeutic needs within breast services. We utilise Savi-scout localisation for non-palpable lesions, with access to Wire localisation if the need arose. Weekly results clinics and Breast Screening clinics are held between the RLH & AUH sites. We hold a weekly breast screening and main oncology MDT, a dedicated breast metastatic MDT occurs via Clatterbridge Cancer Centre with surgical representation. A management meeting and Oncoplastic meeting occur on a Monday morning with monthly-half day audit session as per the Trust timetable.

The candidate will have exposure and training in all of these domains of practice.

Breast Surgery :

Surgery is performed mainly on the RLH & BGH sites; we run theatre lists Monday-Saturday. All consultants offer oncoplastic techniques for conservation and whole breast reconstruction. We have access to dopplers, ADMs, meshes and an implant bank on both RLH & BGH sites. Theatre 1st Assistants can help facilitate bilateral-synchronous operating as needed. Patient are supported to achieve day-case surgery with post-operative phone consultations and dressing clinic appointment managed by the nursing team. Patients attend for post-operative reviews in Results and Follow-up clinics on the RLH & AUH site. The candidate will have opportunity to work with all the surgeons and experience the range of techniques offered. We would expect participation in clinics to observe the post-operative results.

Additional Services :

We offer Family History, Benign Result, a B3-Risk assessment clinic and Genetic-Mainstream testing via our Breast ANP team. Prosthetic fitting and consenting is facilitated by our Breast Care Nursing & Reconstructive Nurse Specialists. Some consultants offer combined genetics-risk reducing consultations and Risk-Reducing Breast Surgery for high risk cases. Breast Trials team are based at the RLH and recruit to a range of observational and interventional trials. Our plastic surgeon offers additional assistance with complex revisional cases and some benign/ cosmetic cases that have achieved NHS funding. The candidate will be welcome and encouraged to observe these services but would not be expected to deliver them.

Facilities in the Breast/Endocrine Surgery Unit

The Breast and Endocrine Surgery Unit currently has access to in-patient beds in the Royal Liverpool Hospital (RLH), Broadgreen Hospital and occasionally Aintree University Hospital(AUH); with the majority of breast surgery managed as a day-case.

The Trust is ‘paper free’ and we provide the relevant hardware to facilitate patient management via the electronic notes and prescribing systems. This also allows the candidate to manage their administrative tasks from any site in a flexible manner.

The RLH & AUH are exceptionally well equipped for all diagnostic and therapeutic procedures necessary for the efficient care of breast/endocrine surgery patients. There is 24-hour access to the emergency theatres and all routine pathology services. The radiology department is equipped for emergency and elective diagnostic procedures, including US, MR and CT/PET-CT scanning. The library facilities in the hospitals are supplemented by excellent medical libraries at the Liverpool Medical Institute. Postgraduate teaching is provided by in-house seminars, MDTs and audit meetings.

Research

The Unit has a good record of clinical investigation with high rates of recruitment to breast trials; with staff contribute regularly to national and international meetings. As a teaching hospital the post holder will have the opportunity to participate in audit and clinical research.

Key Unit Staff at Royal Liverpool Hospital (RLH) & Aintree University Hospital (AUH)

Ms Alison Waghorn (Breast Services lead -Consultant Surgeon )

Ms Emma de Sousa (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast & post-graduate Educational Lead ) – Please contact for further information regarding this post. [email protected] Tel: 0151 706 4712

Mrs Julia Henderson (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon & Clinical Lead Breast Surgery)

Mr Mysore Chandrashekar (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon)

Mr Matthew Rowland (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon & Endocrine Surgeon)

Ms Hiba Fatayer (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon)

Mr Lee Martin (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon)

Ms Geraldine Mitchell (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon & Divisional Medical Director for Surgery RLH)

Mr Simon Timbrell (Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon)

Mr Jamie Barnes (Consultant Plastic Surgeon)

Mrs Anu Shrotri (Director of Breast Screening & Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon)

Mr Mohmed Lafi (Senior Breast Surgeon )

Dr Asha Shivaram Consultant Breast Radiologist & Clinical Lead

Dr Sheetal Sharma Consultant Breast & Interventional Radiologist

Dr Liam Swainbank Consultant Breast & General Radiologist

Dr Mohamed Abdelhadi Consultant Breast Radiologist

Dr Alex Roberts Consultant Breast Radiologist

Unit Manager Mrs Lesley Nutbrown

Lead Nurse – Sister Nicky Gilham

Endocrine Surgery

Miss Susannah Shore (Consultant & Clinical Lead Endocrine Surgery )

Mr Robert Hardy (Consultant Endocrine Surgeon & General Surgeon)

Mr Neil Houghton (Consultant Endocrine & Emergency Surgery )

Miss Helen Perry (Consultant Endocrine & Emergency Surgery )

Other surgical staff consist of Specialist Registrars (ST3-8), CT doctors and FY1s doctors.

There is a team of Theatre First Assistants, Breast Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Breast Care Nurses, Breast Reconstruction Nurse, and pre-operative assessment nurses; split across the 2 sites. We have a dedicated team of administrative and clerical staff including in-patient booking.

The Clinical Load

The Liverpool University Foundation Hospital Trust is a busy tertiary referral centre for breast & endocrine surgery. Patients are referred to the Unit from across Merseyside and in some cases from the Isle of Man for specialist input. There is collaborative MDT working with medical and clinical oncology colleagues from Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.

Teaching

Medical students are attached to the breast & endocrine surgery unit. The post-holder will be expected to give clinical teaching and occasional lectures to undergraduates. There is also nurse training and mentorship to which we would encourage participation with.

Duties

Attend regular operating lists, outpatient clinics, audit and academic meetings and MDTs. Some operating lists maybe on a Saturday (0800-1530) and some clinic in the evening hours for 1700-2030; additional payment for these sessions is available. Take part in daily morning ward rounds to be held with all the other junior surgical staff on duty.

Support the pre-operative nursing team remotely with clinical decision making and specialist referrals to aid peri-op assessment.

There is no Out of Hour On call as part of this post; but if this is important to the post-holder we can facilitate participation on an ad hoc or regular basis. Duties will include assisting on the regular Saturday theatre lists (1:4) and an alternate week Wednesday evening rapid assessment clinic.

Conditions of Service

This post is covered by the Hospital Medical and Dental Staff (England and Wales) Terms and Conditions of Service. The post holder is required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and hold a licence to practice.

Standards of Conduct and Behaviour

You are required to work to the standards set out by the General Medical Council in Good Medical Practice. This includes protecting patients when you believe that a doctor’s or other colleague’s conduct, performance or health is a threat to them. If, after establishing the facts, it is necessary, you must follow the Trust’s procedures in this matter and inform your Clinical Director or Medical Director in the first instance.

The Trust has a set of expected behaviours for all employees and additional behaviours and skills that are expected of managers and supervisors.

Leave Arrangements

All leave should be applied for in accordance with the Trust’s Leave Policy, normally giving six weeks’ notice of any leave, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Training

The job holder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification, & MRCS
FRCS(Gen or Plast)
Be eligible for full registration with, and hold current license to practise from GMC

Desirable criteria

CCT- General Surgery or Plastic Surgery
Additional degree or post-graduate certificates eg: BSc MD

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria

24 Months of Specialist Breast Surgery Training at ST5-8 level
Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems
Ability to prioritise clinical need
Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk
Recognition of and ability to undertake the initial management of an acutely ill patient

Desirable criteria

Oncoplastic or Microvascular Fellowship
Academic Surgical experience
UK NHS medical practice
specialist Oncoplastic Breast Training course
specialist Breast Training course in non-reconstructive breast surgical principles
Advanced Communications course (& or cancer communications based course

Academic Skills •

Essential criteria

Demonstrates understanding of research
Demonstrates understanding of basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives
Demonstrates understanding of basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives

Desirable criteria

Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements
Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project or other activity
Evidence of interest in and/or experience of teaching