Junior Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52,656 pro rata, per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 December 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | UHCW NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7593885/218-T2-JCF-MED-7593885 |
Summary
Interviews are scheduled to take place on 17th December 2025.
We are looking to appoint a junior clinical fellow to our innovative and ambitious Plastic Surgery department which is expanding clinically in terms of consultants, workload and increasing sub-specialisation for an initial period of 6 months from February 2026.
N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications or if there has been a change in organisational priorities.
• Responsibility for assisting in providing plastic surgical services to the Trust
• Examining and clerking in patients prior to both elective and emergency procedures
• Supporting the plastic surgery ward round each morning Monday – Friday
• Taking responsibility for inpatient care on the ward alongside the Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
• Completing discharge summaries and request forms for investigation
• Supporting a 1 in 7 SHO level day and night-time on-call rota
• Active involvement and participation in the clinical audit programme
• Delivery of emergency care in the Hand Assessment Unit
• Supporting the operating teams in theatre and treatment rooms.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our skilled employees across our hospital sites in Coventry and Rugby, with high quality patient care positioned at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a national and international leader in healthcare.
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities.
There has never been a better time to join our team.
The post holder will be required to participate fully in the education and training of medical students, trainee doctors, paramedical, nursing and other appropriate personnel.
As part of our commitment to patients and delivery of a world class service for all we have created the UHCW Improvement (UHCWi) System in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle; this involves a structured approach to removing waste and putting the patient first using a lean management system and methodologies. Our culture and ways of working reflect and embed the practices and methodologies of UHCWi. You are expected, where identified, to attend and complete relevant training and development opportunities to support this. This may include Lean for Leaders, Advanced Lean Training, and the Human Factors Programme, amongst others. Full attendance and completion of identified courses is considered essential and a prerequisite for this post.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is one of the UK's largest teaching Trusts responsible for managing two major hospitals in Coventry and Rugby, which between them serve a population of over a million people. We are the principal teaching hospital for Warwick Medical School with whom we work in close partnership to develop innovative medical education programmes and clinical research. The hospitals are: University Hospital, Coventry and Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby.
The Trust was first established in 1992 and expanded to include Rugby in 1998. As one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching trusts in the country, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust's two hospitals care for over 1,000,000 people from across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. Every year we provide more than 800,000 episodes of care to patients.
University Hospital in Coventry officially became a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) in March 2012. Major Trauma care is delivered through an inclusive Trauma Network delivery model. A Trauma Network includes all providers of trauma care, particularly: pre-hospital services, other hospitals receiving acute trauma admissions (Trauma Units), and rehabilitation services. The network has appropriate links to the social care and the voluntary/community sector. MTCs sit at the heart of Trauma Networks as the centres of excellence providing multi-specialty hospital care to seriously injured patients, optimised for the provision of trauma care. They are the focus of the Trauma Network and manage all types of trauma but specifically have the lead for managing candidate major trauma patients, providing consultant-level care and access to tertiary and specialised level services. Within the Trauma Network the MTC, Central England’s Network covers Coventry and Warwickshire and parts of Northamptonshire. The Central England’s adult Major Trauma Centre is the University Hospital in Coventry.
The Plastic Surgery Unit covers the whole of Warwickshire, including Stratford Upon Avon, Warwick, Nuneaton and Rugby for out-patient clinics (there will be expectation to travel to these sites for clinics) and theatre lists are delivered across 2 sites at UHCW NHS Trust in a dedicated plastic surgery theatre and Rugby St Cross Hospital. Plastics Surgery In-patients are predominantly cared for on ward 52 and 53, the surgical day unit and Rugby surgical Day Unit. The Day Surgery unit provides facilities for day case care. There is also an out-patient department with a dedicated plastics dressing clinic.
The Unit manages Trauma, Congenital Abnormalities, Head and Neck surgery limited to block dissection, skin cancer, facial reanimation, and partial and total Breast Reconstruction including oncoplastic surgery and provides an acute and elective hand service. Microsurgical free tissue transfer is routinely used for breast reconstruction and major trauma. The Department has close links with Dermatology, Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Orthopaedics, General Surgery (particularly breast cancer surgery), Paediatrics, Cardiothoracic and Neurosurgery, Occupational Therapy (particularly in relation to hand cases), Physiotherapy, Prosthetic department and Breast Care Nurses. Major burns and cleft lip and palate cases are referred to the Regional Centre at University Hospitals Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital respectively.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025