About the role
Salary: £76582.00 to £78504.23
Applications are invited for the post of Clinical Fellow Higher (ST6+)/Senior in Transplant Surgery at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Clinical Fellow Higher (ST6+)/Senior you will be expected to lead the organ retrieval team. The Cambridge Organ Retrieval Service (NORS) team consists of a Senior Surgeon (usually a Senior Trainee or Trust Fellow), a Resident Assistant (typically at CT level), and a Scrub Nurse.
On-call commitments will be 1:6 (With 2 Registrars/Senior Clinical Fellows on-call each day), and on that day, the post holder will be expected, when proficient, to lead the NORS team and attend donor hospitals as directed by NHS-BT. As a member of the abdominal retrieval team, the post holder is expected to become proficient in retrieval of liver, pancreas and kidney organs from brain-dead and circulatory dead organ donors. Our unit also deliver normothermic region perfusion (NRP) retrievals and have a very active machine perfusion programme.