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Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 21 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,027 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 April 2025 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB2 3HH |
| Company: | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6907719/435-MQ25-25 |
Summary
The post holder will assist in providing a clinical service in elective and Vascular Surgery to the population of East Lancashire and the adjoining areas. This will include undertaking outpatient clinics, daytime operating lists and out of hour’s emergency operating lists under the supervision of Consultants.
The unit has a strong reputation for high quality surgical training and our Centre current workload is ideally suited for vascular surgeons who wish to improve their knowledge and technical skills in all aspect of vascular surgery.
The Directorate of Vascular Surgery provides inpatient, emergency and day case surgery to the catchment population. The vascular Unit is extremely well organised and has the following facilities:
• A dedicated 18 bed vascular ward (B20)
• A Vascular laboratory which support out-patient clinics and duplex scanning AM and PM Monday to Friday for one stop assessment of new referrals
• A dedicated angiography room across the corridor from the vascular theatre, providing access to endovascular operations including EVARs and hybrid lower limb revascularisations.
All arterial surgery is performed at the RBH, supported by a 20 bedded Critical Care Unit run by specialist Intensivists, a 4 bedded Post-Operative Care Unit, and a full range of diagnostic and interventional radiology services. Planned day case varicose veins procedures are predominantly performed place in the Day-care unit at BGH.
The operating schedule is efficiently structured in keeping with modern tertiary vascular unit principles. There are 5 full-day (2 sessions each) vascular elective lists weekly. In additional, there are 3 vascular lists (1 session each) on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, ring-fenced for acute cases such as bypass grafts, carotid endarterectomies and hybrid procedures. In keeping with recently published GIRFT report, the ratio between scheduled and unscheduled arterial operations may change and theatre allocation may expand further.
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) was formed in 2003 from the merger of Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley NHS Trust and the Burnley Hospitals NHS Trust. ELHT provides Safe, Personal and Effective care to a population of more than 500,000.
Secondary care services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBH) and Burnley General Teaching Hospital (BGH). The RBH site and Phase V at BGH are significant PFI developments.
In 2006 a service reconfiguration, ‘meeting patients needs’ was implemented which resulted in the Blackburn site becoming the centre for all acute services, and the only Emergency Department (ED), in East Lancashire. Since 2012, RBH has become a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma network alongside the trauma centre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The ED at RBH is supported by Urgent Care Centres (UCC) at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington.
Burnley is the site for the East Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre with an in-patient obstetric unit. There is a midwife led birthing unit off the Hospital site in Blackburn. Breast care services are based on this site.
In 2012 the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital was designated as one of the Lancashire Vascular Centres. The Trust is also a tertiary referral centre for hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.
The post holder is expected to attend a minimum of three theatre sessions per week and one or two out-patient clinics per week. The out of hour on call vascular cover will be provided by the successful candidate as a non-resident 1:6 rota. This is a separate rota from general surgery.
Vascular Surgeons have also access to a weekly interventional radiology list. This will be the perfect opportunity for vascular trainees to expand their endovascular experience.
As part of the role you will have assigned clinical education, admin & SPA time.
The post holder will share in administrative duties allocated by mutual agreement within the Directorate and will observe and comply with clinical and non-clinical policies and procedures (including local and national employment and personnel policies) agreed with employees and management. The post holder will be closely involved in clinical audit and other clinical governance issues.
So far as is consistent with the proper discharge of the above duties, the post-holder undertakes to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, and exceptionally to perform additional duties in emergencies or unforeseen circumstances.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025