Senior Clinical Fellow - Plastic Surgery (Hand)

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Senior Clinical Fellow - Plastic Surgery (Hand)

The closing date is 15 October 2025

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we're looking for proactive, motivated, forward-thinking and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team. This new post is an important part of our ongoing development of services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing colleagues to provide a high standard of care across the Trust, as well as to participate in a unique new exciting Anglo-Dutch Training collaboration.

Applications are invited for a Fixed Term Anglo-Dutch Hand Fellow position for 12 months. The Hand Fellow post is ideal for Plastics Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery Senior trainees who wish to further develop their subspecialty experience in the field of Hand and Wrist Surgery. The post has arisen due to the successful collaboration between the Lister Hand Unit and the Hand unit of the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with the Consultant Hand Surgeons and will be exposed to the full spectrum of elective and emergency hand and wrist surgery at the Trust. They will be encouraged to participate in the research, audit, service improvement and teaching activity within the Hand Surgery Department and expected to complete and publish a minimum of 1 research publication, by the end of their tenure.

The Fellow will also be expected to undertake the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery, and/or the European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma Examinations. This will be encouraged and supported by supervision from the Consultant staff and their assigned Educational Supervisor. The lead Consultant Supervisor is a BSSH-approved Diploma Supervisor and Tutor.

With experience there will be opportunities to undertake certain unsupervised operating lists and clinics. The Fellow will be the key member of the Trauma pathway, responsible for facilitating daily Traumalists as a Trauma coordinator.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification Qualifications / Training

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register
• MBBS or qualification of an equivalent level
• FRCS (Plast) (Ortho) or qualification of an equivalent level
• Evidence of attainment or commitment to enroll in the European or British Hand surgery Diploma /similar
• Postgraduate academic degree
• ATLS

Previous Experience

• Able to demonstrate commitment and experience in Plastic Surgery training, in particular: Hand surgery of varying complexity including fractures, limb reconstruction, trauma and microsurgery
• Ability to offer and be accountable for, full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the hand Surgery specialty
• NHS experience

Knowledge

• Experience of audit

Fitness to Practice

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities.

Other requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our trust values every day

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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