Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular
Location
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/5/2025
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Description
The post holder will assist in providing a clinical service in elective and Vascular Surgery to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include undertaking outpatient clinics, daytime operating lists and out of hour’s emergency operating lists under the supervision of Consultants.
The unit has a strong reputation for high quality surgical training and our Centre current workload is ideally suited for vascular surgeons who wish to improve their knowledge and technical skills in all aspect of vascular surgery.
There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Out patient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in patient work would take place at LTH.
The Directorate Of Vascular Surgery Provides Inpatient, Emergency And Day Case Surgery To The Catchment Population. The Vascular Unit Is Extremely Well Organised And Has The Following Facilities
The operating schedule is efficiently structured in keeping with modern tertiary vascular unit principles. There are 5 full-day (2 sessions each) vascular elective lists weekly. In additional, there are 3 vascular lists (1 session each) on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, ring-fenced for acute cases such as bypass grafts, carotid endarterectomies and hybrid procedures. In keeping with recently published GIRFT report, the ratio between scheduled and unscheduled arterial operations may change and theatre allocation may expand further.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust. ELHT provides Safe, Personal and Effective care to a population of more than 500,000.
Secondary care services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBH) and Burnley General Teaching Hospital (BGH).
In 2006 a service reconfiguration, ‘meeting patients needs’ was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services, and the only Emergency Department (ED), in East Lancashire. Since 2012, RBH has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network alongside the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital.
In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres. The Trust is also a tertiary referral centre for hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.
There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Out patient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in patient work would take place at LTH.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Ahmed Elmetwally Job title: Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Clinical Director Telephone number: 01254 734100
Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Mr Elmetwally's Secretary - [email protected]
The unit has a strong reputation for high quality surgical training and our Centre current workload is ideally suited for vascular surgeons who wish to improve their knowledge and technical skills in all aspect of vascular surgery.
There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Out patient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in patient work would take place at LTH.
The Directorate Of Vascular Surgery Provides Inpatient, Emergency And Day Case Surgery To The Catchment Population. The Vascular Unit Is Extremely Well Organised And Has The Following Facilities
- A dedicated 18 bed vascular ward (B20)
- A Vascular laboratory which support out-patient clinics and duplex scanning AM and PM Monday to Friday for one stop assessment of new referrals
- A dedicated angiography room across the corridor from the vascular theatre, providing access to endovascular operations including EVARs and hybrid lower limb revascularisations.
The operating schedule is efficiently structured in keeping with modern tertiary vascular unit principles. There are 5 full-day (2 sessions each) vascular elective lists weekly. In additional, there are 3 vascular lists (1 session each) on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, ring-fenced for acute cases such as bypass grafts, carotid endarterectomies and hybrid procedures. In keeping with recently published GIRFT report, the ratio between scheduled and unscheduled arterial operations may change and theatre allocation may expand further.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust. ELHT provides Safe, Personal and Effective care to a population of more than 500,000.
Secondary care services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBH) and Burnley General Teaching Hospital (BGH).
In 2006 a service reconfiguration, ‘meeting patients needs’ was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services, and the only Emergency Department (ED), in East Lancashire. Since 2012, RBH has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network alongside the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital.
In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres. The Trust is also a tertiary referral centre for hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.
There are plans that the vascular service in ELHT would move to LTH in future. Out patient services and day case would be delivered in ELHT while in patient work would take place at LTH.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Ahmed Elmetwally Job title: Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Clinical Director Telephone number: 01254 734100
Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Mr Elmetwally's Secretary - [email protected]
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