St Mark’s Research Fellow

The post will provide the opportunity to undertake a variety of daytime activities as the clinical element consists mostly of overnight shifts. There is flexibility in determining these, but the following are suggested:
1. Research at St. Mark’s Hospital, for a trainee wishing to obtain a higher degree. Various projects are available, under the supervision of the colorectal surgeons and gastroenterologists.
2. A bespoke educational clinical assistant attachment at St Mark's (for education, not service). This can be arranged through the St Mark's Academic Institute.
3. Other courses or activities where the postholder is a registrar-level surgeon who wishes to maintain clinical skills and regular on call duties, but be available to attend courses/training/other activities.

The post also provides support to the General Surgery and St Mark’s night on-call rotas.

Main duties of the job

**The postholder will take part in one of two clinical rotas**:

- 1:6 rota to provide an overnight 'clinical academic fellow' at registrar level to support the first on-call registrar at Northwick Park Hospital. The Department of General Surgery at NPH provides a comprehensive range of emergency and elective surgical services. General Surgery currently admits approximately 5,500 emergency patients per year. The postholder will be a colorectal surgical trainee and will be responsible to the Department of General Surgery for the care of surgical patients at Northwick Park while on-call.
- 1:8 rota at Central Middlesex Hospital with modest daytime clinical commitment. Elective Colorectal, Orthopaedic and some General Surgery patients are operated on at Central Middlesex Hospital both in the ACAD and BeCAD operating theatres. This post will provide medical cover for these surgical patients on a 1:8 nights and weekends rota at Central Middlesex Hospital, and facilitate obtaining a surgical opinion on other medical patients within the Hospital. Supervised, two week wait clinics will also be performed on a flexible basis. This post can be performed by gastroenterology trainees or colorectal surgical trainees and is responsible to the St Mark’s Colorectal Surgery Department for their clinical duties

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

**We run major acute services at**:

- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Please see attached JD.

The post will provide the opportunity to undertake a variety of daytime activities as the clinical element consists mostly of overnight shifts. There is flexibility in determining these, but the following are suggested:
1. Research at St. Mark’s Hospital, for a trainee wishing to obtain a higher
degree. Various projects are available, under the supervision of the
colorectal surgeons and gastroenterologists.
2. A bespoke educational clinical assistant attachment at St Mark's (for
education, not service). This can be arranged through the St Mark's
Academic Institute.
3. Other courses or activities where the postholder is a registrar-level surgeon who wishes to maintain clinical skills and regular on call duties, but be available to attend courses/training/other activities.