Senior Clinical Fellow in Bariatric +/- Upper GI Anaesthesia

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

BARIATRIC

This post is available from Feb/ August 2025 or Nov 2025 and will be supervised by Dr Jonathan Cousins.

This post could be considered as an OOPE or as a standalone 6- or 12-month post. It can also be combined with Upper GI Anaesthesia. It would suit a senior trainee/ peri-CCT /post CCT grade as independent practice will an expected /planned endpoint, thus more junior grades are not eligible.

VASCULAR

The role of the clinical vascular fellow is to develop and augment vascular anaesthesia in St Mary's Hospital, as well as contribute to the department of anaesthesia. St. Mary's Hospital is a tertiary vascular Centre and Trauma Centre situated in London that treats more than 300 adult arterial vascular patients per year from diverse backgrounds.

This post could be considered as an OOPE or as a standalone 6- or 12-month post. It would suit a senior trainee / peri-CCT / post CCT grade - as independent practice will be an expected/planned endpoint, thus more junior grades are not eligible. The post holder will be expected to join in delivering the education of junior grade anaesthetists and will be involved in protocol and guideline development as well as be instrumental in continued audit and research processes.

Main duties of the job

BARIATRIC

In addition to clinical opportunities:
• Attendance / Participation at the Bariatric Research meeting held every 8 weeks
• Clinical teaching and experience at Sleep clinic possible
• Learn/ deliver the skills of home-NIV device initiation/ optimisation
• PICC/ Mid-line insertion training is available (for difficult venous/long term access)
• Bariatric anaesthesia protocol writing and with SOBA agreement, leading to publication
• Expectation to submit and present abstracts/posters to SOBA/BOMMS/IFSO as appropriate
• SOBA conference assisting is a potential CV opportunity
• Opportunity to join/ participate in QiA & formal Research projects in Anaesthesia
• Opportunity to join/ participate in Research projects in Bariatric Surgery/ Medicine
• Obesity / Bariatric Sensitivity specific training
• Extensive experience of very deep Neuro-Muscular Block and other ERAS techniques

Exclusive training in spinal anaesthesia of the morbid and ultra-obese patient group

VASCULAR

In addition to clinical opportunities:

Academic output
• There is a strong departmental tradition of performing research and audit in this service and of publishing results
• Previous experience of research and completed audit will be expected

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

BARIATRIC

The post will be available as a full time or part time post. Job plan of a part-time post will be by agreement with the Supervisor of Post. The post holder will undertake two all day bariatric / upper GI lists during each week of elective work. The post holder will also regularly attend the MDT and attend Bariatric Pre-Assessment (POAC) clinics, where in addition to anaesthetic pre-operative assessments, he/ she will have the opportunity to observe surgical (both new and follow-up), psychological and dietetic assessments. The centre performs 650-750 bariatric surgical procedures annually in addition to /in combination with other benign upper GI procedures. These cases are divided across three regular full day lists (Mon/Wed/Fri) with 3-6 cases on each list.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
• On GMC's Specialist Register or within 24 months of being admitted to the register by the date of the interviews or eligible for specialist registration
• FRCA or equivalent
• ATLS / ETC or equivalent
• Evidence of experience in critical care

Desirable criteria

• APLS or paediatric critical care experience
• MD, PhD

Clinical Expertise in Specialty/Sub Specialty

Essential criteria

• IT Skills and computer literacy
• Experience of treating patients after injury

Desirable criteria

• Previous work in a major trauma centre

Leadership/ Management Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
• Ability to lead the education of other medical professionals
• Ability to work across specialties and be collaborative

Teaching and training

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Desirable criteria

• Have set up or lead a teaching programme

Audit

Essential criteria

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit
• Experience of clinical audit and quality improvement

Desirable criteria

• Have presented quality improvement work or audit at a conference

Academic Achievements including Research/Publications

Desirable criteria

• Peer reviewed publication/s in anaesthesia, intensive care or emergency medicine

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 576.5KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Aspire to values (PDF, 132.8KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)