Specialist Clinical Fellow - General Surgery (ST3 equivalent)

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

6/23/2025

Job Overview

To participate in the elective and emergency surgery take of colorectal and upper gastrointestinal firms in a busy district general hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post allows access to laparoscopic and robotic surgery. The position also aligns as a UK training post. Opportunities to attend theatre lists, clinic, endoscopy and ERCP are provided.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Lead educational supervisor – Miss Anna Sharrock (clinical tutor)

Clinical supervisor UGI surgery – Mr Raj Veeramootoo (CS)

Clinical supervisor colorectal surgery – Mr Henry Dowson (CS)

Frimley Park Hospital is a busy district general hospital. The fellowship comprises of upper and lower gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery. Both offer access to theatre including laparoscopic and robotic lists. Additional training in endoscopy and ERCP is available and it is expected that the fellow will participate in clinics.

The hospital and operates an on call emergency general surgery block, and it is expected that the fellow will participate in a full elective and emergency rota.

For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Registration

Essential criteria

• GMC registration
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Medical degree
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• General Surgery - interest in UGI and CR
  
  

Communication

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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