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Junior Clinical Fellow | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,923 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 August 2024 |
| Location: | Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0JR |
| Company: | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6461784/241-579AS-24 |
Summary
Junior Clinical Fellow - 12 months fixed term contract
To work within a multidisciplinary team managing both screening and symptomatic breast cancers and benign breast disease.
To gain experience in managing benign and malignant breast disease working towards independence in new patient clinics and routine follow up clinics.
To assist with more specialised clinics, such as diagnostic results clinics, post-operative results clinics, reconstructive clinics, gynaecomastia clinics, family history clinics.
To gain surgical experience in core breast surgical techniques such as benign breast lump excision, simple mastectomy, sentinel node biopsy, and straight-forward breast conservation surgery.
To experience assisting with complex breast surgery including a full range of oncoplastic techniques including oncoplastic breast conserving surgery, implant-based breast reconstruction, use of acellular dermal matrices, pedicle-flap reconstruction, chest wall perforator flaps, free-flap breast reconstruction and lipomodelling.
To participate in the unit’s active audit and research programme or to work on a quality improvement project in preparation for ST application.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to provide a comprehensive oncoplastic breast surgery service for the patients of Bolton.
• Work with minimal supervision in new patient clinics and routine long-term follow-up clinics.
• Support the two FY1 doctors and nursing staff to run a safe and efficient pre-operative assessment clinic.
• Be involved in teaching junior staff and medical students.
• Provide assistance to the senior surgical team in theatre.
• Be keen to expand their core surgical skills.
• Complete administrative work to a high standard and in a timely fashion.
Bolton Breast Unit provides symptomatic breast services for the Bolton area and screening services for the areas of Bolton, Bury and Rochdale (eligible screening population approximately 100,000). 500 new breast cancers are treated each year. There are approximately 5000 new symptomatic referrals each year in one stop diagnostic clinics. The surgical team consists of 5 consultant oncoplastic breast surgeons, an associate specialist breast surgeon, a senior Oncoplastic fellow, two advanced nurse practitioners and a GP with extended role in breast disease management. The unit has an excellent reputation for training and has 1 specialist registrar, 1 core surgical trainee, and 2 foundation doctors.
Oncoplastic breast conservation surgery is offered to all suitable patients including a range of therapeutic mammoplasty techniques and chest wall perforator flaps. Immediate breast reconstruction is available for all appropriate patients, as per NICE guidance. Sub-pectoral and pre-pectoral implant-based reconstructions are offered. Theatres have an implant bank including polyurethane-coated implants and acellular dermal matrix, as well as the Puregraft lipomodelling system. There is a well-established pathway for the referral of patients for DIEP and TUG free flaps at the regional plastics unit at Manchester University Foundation Trust (MFT).
Example working week
To allow for learning opportunities to be matched with trainees each week, the timetable does vary from week to week. In general, each week, the clinical fellow will attend:
3 theatre sessions
2 new patient clinics
1 results clinic
1 long term follow-up clinic
1 MDM
1 admin session
1 CPD session
Please note that Clinical Fellows are paid on a local pay scale that mirrors Doctors in Training pay scales. Basic salary offered for this role is fixed at £43,923 and will not be uplifted beyond that salary point. Where the role requires out of hours working, evening, weekend and on call enhancements will be added according to a work schedule. It is Trust practice that we offer a set salary for this role and variations will not be considered.
This vacancy is likely to close early due to a high number of applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Jul 2024
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