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Fellowships Job Description
Below is a description of the fellows job and main duties
Clinical Activities
Inpatients Care
- Assisting in theatre sessions
- Inpatient care including conducting daily ward rounds and supporting RMO with any clinical enquiries related to patient care.
Out of Hours Cover
- Covering weekday out-of-hour patients emergency calls and enquiries.
- Weekend oncall (currently 1 in 7)
Outpatient Clinics
- Conducting follow up clinics for NHS patients
- Conducting clinics for new NHS patients
Answering Clinical Enquiries (in-hours)
- Assist with medical enquiries at the office (these might be passed from the Specialist BariatricNurses or the admin team)
- Liaise with other hospitals teams when patients admitted into NHS Facilities and keep updatesof patients care there. Note: The consultant surgeon holds the ultimate responsibility for the patients care. Whenever the Fellow feels that an enquiry needs the attention of the consultant surgeon, they should escalate directly to the consultant surgeon as needed.
Admin
- Keep a record of patients discharges and HDU stay
- Keep a record of M&M events and present the data in the regular M&M meetings.
- Blood tests reviewing, actioning and letters
- Help the management team in conducting clinical audits related to patient care.
Applications are invited for one of our two Royal College of Surgeons accredited Bariatric Clinical Fellowships.
Phoenix Health was founded by Prof David Kerrigan, Past-President of BOMSS and the fellowship programme is in its 16th year.
The training is delivered by a team of 4 bariatric surgeons led by Mr Shafiq Javed, a senior bariatric surgeon with over 25-year experience in performing complex primary & revisional bariatric surgery.
We currently perform over 600 bariatric procedures per year referred through our supra-regional NHS contract and the self-funding route.
The Phoenix Fellowship programme has a solid reputation for providing excellent, comprehensive training in all aspects of bariatric surgery and opportunities for clinical research, with recent Fellows being appointed directly from the Fellowship to Upper GI Consultant posts in major Teaching Hospitals.
Applicants should have experience in laparoscopic fundoplication and/or intracorporeal suturing, meticulous clinical standards and an excellent work ethic. Possession of GMC and excellent English language skills is mandatory.
Fellows are responsible for day-to-day ward management and outpatient care of patients. You will receive training in all aspects of a holistic bariatric surgery service (including MDT, outpatients and hands-on laparoscopic training) and will be expected to take part in a bariatric on-call rota.
The post-holder will be exposed to a wide range of bariatric procedures, including laparoscopic gastric bypass (RYGB and OAGB), sleeve gastrectomy, DS/SADIS, intragastric balloons and complex revisional surgery.
We expect that after completing a 12-month Fellowship, candidates will be able to independently perform gastric band removal, bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.
Fellows will be encouraged to contribute to our active clinical research programme and receive mentoring in clinical research methodology
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Your application should be submitted by email and not through the NHS Jobs Website.
The email should go to
Ms Emma Thomas, Phoenix Health Non-Clinical Lead
Your email should include
1. Your CV
2. A covering letter explaining your interest and experience in bariatric surgery
3. The names and contact details of two referees.
For any enquiries about the fellowship or pre-interview visits, please contact Mr Qutayba Almerie Bariatric Surgeon and Programme Director of the Bariatric Fellowship at
Closing Date:
9am GMT, 30th Sep 2024
Interview Date:
w/c 7th Oct 2024 (F2F and/or video interview permitted)
Fellowships Job Description
Below is a description of the fellows job and main duties
Clinical Activities
Inpatients Care
- Assisting in theatre sessions
- Inpatient care including conducting daily ward rounds and supporting RMO with any clinical enquiries related to patient care.
Out of Hours Cover
- Covering weekday out-of-hour patients emergency calls and enquiries.
- Weekend oncall (currently 1 in 7)
Outpatient Clinics
- Conducting follow up clinics for NHS patients
- Conducting clinics for new NHS patients
Answering Clinical Enquiries (in-hours)
- Assist with medical enquiries at the office (these might be passed from the Specialist BariatricNurses or the admin team)
- Liaise with other hospitals teams when patients admitted into NHS Facilities and keep updatesof patients care there. Note: The consultant surgeon holds the ultimate responsibility for the patients care. Whenever the Fellow feels that an enquiry needs the attention of the consultant surgeon, they should escalate directly to the consultant surgeon as needed.
Admin
- Keep a record of patients discharges and HDU stay
- Keep a record of M&M events and present the data in the regular M&M meetings.
- Blood tests reviewing, actioning and letters
- Help the management team in conducting clinical audits related to patient care.
Applications are invited for one of our two Royal College of Surgeons accredited Bariatric Clinical Fellowships.
Phoenix Health was founded by Prof David Kerrigan, Past-President of BOMSS and the fellowship programme is in its 16th year.
The training is delivered by a team of 4 bariatric surgeons led by Mr Shafiq Javed, a senior bariatric surgeon with over 25-year experience in performing complex primary & revisional bariatric surgery.
We currently perform over 600 bariatric procedures per year referred through our supra-regional NHS contract and the self-funding route.
The Phoenix Fellowship programme has a solid reputation for providing excellent, comprehensive training in all aspects of bariatric surgery and opportunities for clinical research, with recent Fellows being appointed directly from the Fellowship to Upper GI Consultant posts in major Teaching Hospitals.
Applicants should have experience in laparoscopic fundoplication and/or intracorporeal suturing, meticulous clinical standards and an excellent work ethic. Possession of GMC and excellent English language skills is mandatory.
Fellows are responsible for day-to-day ward management and outpatient care of patients. You will receive training in all aspects of a holistic bariatric surgery service (including MDT, outpatients and hands-on laparoscopic training) and will be expected to take part in a bariatric on-call rota.
The post-holder will be exposed to a wide range of bariatric procedures, including laparoscopic gastric bypass (RYGB and OAGB), sleeve gastrectomy, DS/SADIS, intragastric balloons and complex revisional surgery.
We expect that after completing a 12-month Fellowship, candidates will be able to independently perform gastric band removal, bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.
Fellows will be encouraged to contribute to our active clinical research programme and receive mentoring in clinical research methodology
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Your application should be submitted by email and not through the NHS Jobs Website.
The email should go to
Ms Emma Thomas, Phoenix Health Non-Clinical Lead
Your email should include
1. Your CV
2. A covering letter explaining your interest and experience in bariatric surgery
3. The names and contact details of two referees.
For any enquiries about the fellowship or pre-interview visits, please contact Mr Qutayba Almerie Bariatric Surgeon and Programme Director of the Bariatric Fellowship at
Closing Date:
9am GMT, 30th Sep 2024
Interview Date:
w/c 7th Oct 2024 (F2F and/or video interview permitted)
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