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NHS LOTHIAN
CLINICAL FELLOW (LAS)
IN HEPATOLOGY AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Reference: TG 1574
Applications are welcome for the above fixed term (12 months), full time (40 hours per week) post based at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
This is a one year fellowship providing training in GI and liver transplantation.
Duties and responsibilities include: Day to day care of patients in wards; Liver transplant clinics; Assessing patients for liver transplant; Presenting the assessment patients at the weekly departmental transplant assessment meeting; Emergency endoscopies as require. The successful candidate will also participate in academic, clinical and audit meetings.
The Scottish Liver Transplant Unit (SLTU) performs approximately 100 liver transplants per year. Admitting around 50 patients per year with acute liver failure from all over Scotland. It is the only liver transplant unit in Scotland.
There is a 20 bedded transplant ward (which also incorporates renal pancreatic transplant and islet transplantation) as well as a purpose built transplant and renal high dependency unit.
The GI/Liver ward has 30 beds with 15-20 liver patients and 5-15 GI beds. There are two individual teams each week serving the liver and luminal GI patients separately. Each team has a consultant of the week, a registrar, a core medical trainee and a foundation doctor
The post does not have educational approval from the Postgraduate Dean and will not be recognised for training.
For further information contact Carol Blair
Tel: 0131 242 1719
Email: carol.blair@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Further job details giving the minimum requirements for this post and how to apply, please visit https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk
We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.
Please note that details of all current medical vacancies for NHS Lothian can be found at www.medicaljobs.scot.nhs.uk
Closing Date: 28th May 2021.
Interview Date: 2nd June 2021.
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.