Senior Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery (ST3 equivalent)
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £65,048 - £73,992 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7373068/317-TD-25-153-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This vacancy has arisen within the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Northern Vascular Centre, based at the Freeman Hospital. This post is available from 1 October 2025 until 6 October 2026.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The successful applicant(s) will work a 1 in 8 vascular on-call rota. The post would suit experienced registrars who wish to train further in both general & complex sub-specialist vascular practice, which can be tailored to the individual prior to appointment as a consultant. There are opportunities to perform research and to learn advanced open and endovascular techniques in aortic, venous and peripheral work. The Freeman Vascular unit specialises in suprarenal aortic surgery, joint cardiothoracic and vascular aortic work, complex EVAR and aortic dissection, as well as offering advanced, complex lower limb treatments and a regional deep venous service. Applicants should possess full GMC registration and possession of the Intercollegiate Examination in General or Vascular Surgery is desirable, but not essential. Salary will be at an appropriate point on the ST3+ pay scale.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Mr Matthew Thomas, Clinical Lead on 0191 2239940, or via email at m.thomas2@nhs.net, or Miss Anne Burdess, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, on 0191 2231269 or via email at a.burdess@nhs.net
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
Oversee day to day management of patients on the vascular ward including providing supervision of more junior members of the vascular team. Attendance at vascular out-patient clinics and operating lists. Participation in weekly MDT and monthly morbidity and mortality meetings. On call would be a 1 in 8 non-resident and includes management of emergency vascular admissions to the Freeman as well as providing cover for the Royal Victoria Infirmary where the Major Trauma Centre is located. There is NO commitment to General Surgery.
Administrative:
The post holder will be responsible for assisting the junior residents in the timely completion of discharge summaries and other general administrative work on behalf of the consultants.
Research:
The unit has an active research portfolio. There are opportunities for clinical and experimental surgical research for the post holder, both within the Department of Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology. Please contact the department to discuss further.
There are weekly unit and monthly directorate educational and audit meetings which the post holder is expected to attend.
Teaching:
The unit regularly hosts medical students for both basic clinical and final year teaching. Most of this is supervised by Teaching Fellows and whilst there is no fixed commitment, the post holder would be expected to teach medical students, post-graduate students and nurses from time to time.
This advert closes on Saturday 26 Jul 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This vacancy has arisen within the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Northern Vascular Centre, based at the Freeman Hospital. This post is available from 1 October 2025 until 6 October 2026.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The successful applicant(s) will work a 1 in 8 vascular on-call rota. The post would suit experienced registrars who wish to train further in both general & complex sub-specialist vascular practice, which can be tailored to the individual prior to appointment as a consultant. There are opportunities to perform research and to learn advanced open and endovascular techniques in aortic, venous and peripheral work. The Freeman Vascular unit specialises in suprarenal aortic surgery, joint cardiothoracic and vascular aortic work, complex EVAR and aortic dissection, as well as offering advanced, complex lower limb treatments and a regional deep venous service. Applicants should possess full GMC registration and possession of the Intercollegiate Examination in General or Vascular Surgery is desirable, but not essential. Salary will be at an appropriate point on the ST3+ pay scale.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Mr Matthew Thomas, Clinical Lead on 0191 2239940, or via email at m.thomas2@nhs.net, or Miss Anne Burdess, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, on 0191 2231269 or via email at a.burdess@nhs.net
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
Oversee day to day management of patients on the vascular ward including providing supervision of more junior members of the vascular team. Attendance at vascular out-patient clinics and operating lists. Participation in weekly MDT and monthly morbidity and mortality meetings. On call would be a 1 in 8 non-resident and includes management of emergency vascular admissions to the Freeman as well as providing cover for the Royal Victoria Infirmary where the Major Trauma Centre is located. There is NO commitment to General Surgery.
Administrative:
The post holder will be responsible for assisting the junior residents in the timely completion of discharge summaries and other general administrative work on behalf of the consultants.
Research:
The unit has an active research portfolio. There are opportunities for clinical and experimental surgical research for the post holder, both within the Department of Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology. Please contact the department to discuss further.
There are weekly unit and monthly directorate educational and audit meetings which the post holder is expected to attend.
Teaching:
The unit regularly hosts medical students for both basic clinical and final year teaching. Most of this is supervised by Teaching Fellows and whilst there is no fixed commitment, the post holder would be expected to teach medical students, post-graduate students and nurses from time to time.
This advert closes on Saturday 26 Jul 2025
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