Senior Clinical Fellow in Transplant & HPB Surgery
| Posting date: | 09 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £73,992 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 March 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 7LE |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7765285/321-SUWON-MS-7765285-S6 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The HPB & Oxford Transplant units are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic doctor to join the team working in Transplantation. The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the country.
This is a replacement post. The appointments are on a whole-time/part-time basis, but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share. Candidates are expected to be at or close to Post CCT level in competence and training.
Candidates are very welcome to visit the department and are invited to contact clinical lead Transplant - Srikanth Reddy (Srikanth.reddy@ouh.nhs.uk) and or Clinical Lead, HPB Services – Michael Silva (Michael.Silva@ouh.nhs.uk), Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
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The applicant will be required to lead the organ retrieval team incl 1:4 weekends (Necessary training will be provided to suitable candidates), support the HPB & Transplant clinical service including in and out of hours flexibly with cross cover including clinics, wards and operating theatres.
Development opportunities exist in Liver & Pancreatic resections, Robotic HPB Surgery including sign off at level 2, pancreas transplantation, kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, vascular access & multi organ retrievals.
The Oxford Transplant Centre comprises a separate building including day-case beds, outpatient clinics, Tissue Typing laboratory and office accommodation; in-patients are situated nearby. The unit provides a regional renal transplant service for the six counties surrounding Oxford (population about 3 million), supra-regional pancreas, islet and intestinal transplant services and organ retrieval (as part of the National Organ Retrieval Service). Some 250 deceased and living donor transplants and more than 140 organ retrievals are performed per year, together over 400 vascular access and other procedures. The clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre include the pancreatic islet transplant programme (Director Professor Paul Johnson).
The transplant unit is closely associated with major research programmes in transplantation biology within the Oxford Transplant Centre, The NHSBT Transplantation Laboratory and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
Transplantation
The Senior Clinical Fellows support the clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre as directed by the Clinical Lead. Clinical responsibilities will include emergency and elective operating, support of the organ retrieval service, outpatient clinics, ward rounds and care of inpatients. Senior Clinical Fellows are expected to have or acquire the skills necessary to lead the multi-organ retrieval team. Any necessary training will be provided.
The Oxford Transplant Centre comprises a separate building including day-case beds, outpatient clinics, Tissue Typing laboratory and office accommodation. The unit provides a regional renal transplant service for the six counties surrounding Oxford (population about 3 million), supra-regional pancreas and intestinal transplant services and organ retrieval (as part of the nationally commissioned national organ retrieval service). More than 250 deceased and living donor transplants and 200 organ retrievals are performed per year, together with vascular access and other procedures numbering over 400 operations. Approximately 60 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies & liver donor transplants; 50-60 pancreas transplants & 4-6 intestinal transplants are undertaken annually. The clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre also include the pancreatic islet transplant programme. In collaboration with the HPB service, the Transplant Unit provides a pancreatic auto-transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation). The Oxford University Hospitals has recently formed a transplant network (COxTNet) in partnership with University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwick, which enables free flow of both patients and staff between the two kidney transplant units, as dictated by capacity restraints.
Hepatobiliary/pancreatic (HPB)
The HPB clinical service carries out approximately 250 major resectional surgical procedures per year and has a substantial work-load in benign HPB surgery, inpatient management, outpatient clinics and ward-rounds. Together with middle-grade staff and consultants, the Senior Clinical Fellows contribute to specialist out-of-hours cover for HPB patients. Oxford has an established robotic HPB surgery programme and opportunities exist for level 2 sign off. In collaboration with the Islet service, the HPB Unit provides a pancreatic auto-transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation).
This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026
The HPB & Oxford Transplant units are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic doctor to join the team working in Transplantation. The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the country.
This is a replacement post. The appointments are on a whole-time/part-time basis, but applications are welcome from those who wish to job share. Candidates are expected to be at or close to Post CCT level in competence and training.
Candidates are very welcome to visit the department and are invited to contact clinical lead Transplant - Srikanth Reddy (Srikanth.reddy@ouh.nhs.uk) and or Clinical Lead, HPB Services – Michael Silva (Michael.Silva@ouh.nhs.uk), Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues. Suitably qualified job-share candidates will receive serious consideration.
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The applicant will be required to lead the organ retrieval team incl 1:4 weekends (Necessary training will be provided to suitable candidates), support the HPB & Transplant clinical service including in and out of hours flexibly with cross cover including clinics, wards and operating theatres.
Development opportunities exist in Liver & Pancreatic resections, Robotic HPB Surgery including sign off at level 2, pancreas transplantation, kidney transplantation, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, vascular access & multi organ retrievals.
The Oxford Transplant Centre comprises a separate building including day-case beds, outpatient clinics, Tissue Typing laboratory and office accommodation; in-patients are situated nearby. The unit provides a regional renal transplant service for the six counties surrounding Oxford (population about 3 million), supra-regional pancreas, islet and intestinal transplant services and organ retrieval (as part of the National Organ Retrieval Service). Some 250 deceased and living donor transplants and more than 140 organ retrievals are performed per year, together over 400 vascular access and other procedures. The clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre include the pancreatic islet transplant programme (Director Professor Paul Johnson).
The transplant unit is closely associated with major research programmes in transplantation biology within the Oxford Transplant Centre, The NHSBT Transplantation Laboratory and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
Transplantation
The Senior Clinical Fellows support the clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre as directed by the Clinical Lead. Clinical responsibilities will include emergency and elective operating, support of the organ retrieval service, outpatient clinics, ward rounds and care of inpatients. Senior Clinical Fellows are expected to have or acquire the skills necessary to lead the multi-organ retrieval team. Any necessary training will be provided.
The Oxford Transplant Centre comprises a separate building including day-case beds, outpatient clinics, Tissue Typing laboratory and office accommodation. The unit provides a regional renal transplant service for the six counties surrounding Oxford (population about 3 million), supra-regional pancreas and intestinal transplant services and organ retrieval (as part of the nationally commissioned national organ retrieval service). More than 250 deceased and living donor transplants and 200 organ retrievals are performed per year, together with vascular access and other procedures numbering over 400 operations. Approximately 60 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies & liver donor transplants; 50-60 pancreas transplants & 4-6 intestinal transplants are undertaken annually. The clinical activities of the Oxford Transplant Centre also include the pancreatic islet transplant programme. In collaboration with the HPB service, the Transplant Unit provides a pancreatic auto-transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation). The Oxford University Hospitals has recently formed a transplant network (COxTNet) in partnership with University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwick, which enables free flow of both patients and staff between the two kidney transplant units, as dictated by capacity restraints.
Hepatobiliary/pancreatic (HPB)
The HPB clinical service carries out approximately 250 major resectional surgical procedures per year and has a substantial work-load in benign HPB surgery, inpatient management, outpatient clinics and ward-rounds. Together with middle-grade staff and consultants, the Senior Clinical Fellows contribute to specialist out-of-hours cover for HPB patients. Oxford has an established robotic HPB surgery programme and opportunities exist for level 2 sign off. In collaboration with the Islet service, the HPB Unit provides a pancreatic auto-transplant service (Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplantation).
This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026
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