Digestive Disease Clinical Fellow

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Job Title

Digestive Disease Clinical Fellow

Location

London

Facility

Central London - Victoria

Institute

Digestive Disease Institute-Cleveland Clinic London

Job Code

UK0825

Job Summary

This is a Clinical Fellow position responsible for the inpatient care of patients at the Cleveland Clinic London. Cleveland Clinic London is a 186-bed private hospital in central London caring for patients undergoing complex surgery in the main surgical specialties. There are also inpatient medical specialties including but not exclusively cardiology, gastroenterology and neurology. You should be competent in the assessment and initial management of medical patients and perioperative surgical patients. You will primarily work with the digestive diseases institute and be managing the routine daily care of patients undergoing a variety of surgical procedures or who are inpatients for some non-surgical conditions. You will have direct supervision from the specialty consultants working at CCL. This role is not just about providing high quality, world leading care, as you have will the opportunity for personal and professional development in leadership, education and medical informatics. Candidates should have completed Foundation training and be eager and enthusiastic to learn, be able to work as part of a high functioning team in a high reliability organisation.

This post is linked to a full time PhD Breast Surgical Research at Imperial College Under Dr. Daniel Leff commencing in April of 2026.

Total FTE for the post is .75 with 15 hours weekly being dedicated to patient care at CCL.

Job Details

Job Responsibilities:

Work as a part of the clinical fellow workforce providing inpatient care to multi-specialty inpatients.

Work collaboratively with specialist consultants and nursing professionals to ensure that patients’ treatment and care needs are met.

Be part of the rota covering a 24 hour 7 day a week house coverage medical team.

Duties include:

• Ward rounds – both alone daily and with consultants
• Daily afternoon discharge meetings to co-ordinate ‘home for lunch’
• Coverage of patients on day surgery unit
• Epic Electronic Documentation – Ward rounds, progress notes, prescribing, discharge summaries, investigation ordering, referrals, investigation result reviewing
• Patient and relatives' communication
• Attendance to evaluate acute change in patients' condition
• Detailed handover to colleagues
• Resuscitation team membership

Professional Responsibilties

Taking part in clinical governance, education, training and research to continuously improve and strive for excellence:

• Participating in the regular in-house learning sessions and other educational activities as well as taking up educational responsibilities
• Adhering to the best practice guidelines, clinical audits, and governance.
• Active involvement in clinical governance meetings, including but not limited to mortality review, safety event reporting, peer review, and other relevant activities
• Complete and keep up to date with mandatory training as required by Cleveland Clinic on all aspects of professional practice

Education:

• MBBS or equivalent
• Fully registered with the GMC and current license to practice
• Current UK visa or permission to work

Certifications:

MRCP, MRCS/FRCS or equivalent

Competencies (Complexity of Work):

• Ability to organise and prioritise clinical needs
• Evidence of the diagnostic skills, and clinical judgment.
• Competent in the perioperative management of the surgical patients including the basic assessment, investigation and management.
• Competent in routine clinical skills including venipuncture, blood cultures, arterial sampling, nasogastric tube and urethral catheters.

Work Experience:

• Core medical or surgical trainee
• Experience of the general perioperative management of surgical patients

Personal Skills:

• Commitment to good team working and relationships
• Demonstrate probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality)
• Effective communication skills
• Good leadership skills
• Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrates empathy and understanding
• Supportive and caring attitude to patients and colleagues

Commitment to clinical governance/improving quality of patient care:

• Demonstrate awareness of good decision making. Awareness of own limitations.
• Evidence of engagement in clinical governance, reporting errors/learning from errors.
• Experience of audit or quality improvement.
• Experience of supervising clinical staff.
• Experience of education and training medical, nursing, and all other relevant caregivers.

Personal Protective Equipment:

Follow standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Safeguarding:

All caregivers have a personal and a professional responsibility to identify and report abuse. A patient or fellow caregiver may disclose information of being abused or suspected abuse. A caregiver may also witness abuse or simply have concerns of abuse taking place. Should any caregiver suspect abuse then it is vital that the CCL safeguarding policy and procedure is immediately implemented.

It is the caregiver’s responsibility to ensure they are fully compliant with CCLs safeguarding and training and read, understood and adhere to the CCL’s Safeguarding Policy and Protocols.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy  at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.