Trust Doctor StR Higher with special interest in IBD

We are looking to appoint a Trust Doctor StR Higher with special interest in IBD within the Department of Colorectal surgery with an emphasis on the surgical management of Inflammatory bowel disease at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Derriford Hospital, Devon.

This post is a role intended for surgeons who are towards the end of their specialist training (ST6 or above), either seeking employment as a consultant or who wish to further their clinical experience before taking up appointment to a consultant position.

This is a full-time, 1-year post, available to commence from January 2026

Previous experience in General Surgery is essential.

Some of the duties of the Senior Clinical Fellow are as follows:

Participate in the Theatre and ward care of Lower GI and emergency surgery patients.

Participate in the Middle grade on-call rota.

Liaise with junior trainees to ensure appropriate pre-operative work-up including imaging.

Attend regular operating sessions of the clinical team to assist with major surgery and develop skills of increasing complexity under the close supervision of the Consultant.

Assist with regular outpatient clinics under the Consultant's guidance.

Undertake administrative duties including the dictation of discharge summaries, operating notes, outpatient clinic letters and other relevant clinical correspondence.

Perform duties in emergencies and unforeseen circumstances at the request of the Consultants.

Contribute to the teaching of medical students, and junior trainees.

Contribute to rota management of the junior doctors

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is the largest hospital in the Southwest peninsula and a major trauma centre, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare.

Our geography gives us a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy. Population ageing is a recognised national trend, but is exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in. The proportion of our population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years and we have developed a Population Health Strategy in response to this demographic shift.

We work within a network of other hospitals to offer a range of specialist services:

Kidney transplant

Hepato-Pancreatic Biliary Surgery

Neurosurgery

Cardiothoracic surgery

Bone marrow transplant

Upper Gastro-intestinal surgery

Neonatal intensive care and high-risk obstetrics

Plastic surgery

Liver transplant evaluation Advanced pelvic oncology

Stereotactic radiosurgery

Pelvic floor surgery

We are looking to appoint a Trust Doctor StR Hiher with special interest in IBD in Colorectal surgery. The post is intended for surgeons who are toward the end of their specialist training, either seeking employment as a consultant or who wish to further their clinical experience before taking up appointment to a consultant position. This is a Trust appointment, not a formal training post, so does not have Deanery or Royal College approval for training purposes. This is a fixed term post with terms and conditions that follow the specialist registrar grade, except for study leave as outlined in section 3.5. The salary scale is within the Specialist Registrar salary scale.

The post-holder will be supervised in his/her work by a designated consultant. They will be expected to be able to perform routine, uncomplicated procedures (such as cholecystectomy and hernia repair) with minimal supervision. The focus of training will be oesophageal and gastric resections, and bariatric surgery. In addition, there will be ample opportunity to gain experience in fundoplication and hiatus hernia surgery (including revision procedures).

The post includes a small commitment to emergency general surgery and Colorectal service.