Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Urology - Bristol, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

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Applications are invited for two posts of clinical fellow in paediatric surgery and one post in paediatric orthopaedic surgery contributing to the paediatric surgery on call rota, based at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.


  • Two starting from August 2024 for 12 months (full time paediatric surgery/ urology)
  • One starting from August 2024 for 6 months (full time paediatric surgery/urology)
  • One from August 2024 for 12 months (daytime paediatric orthopaedic with on call duties in paediatric surgery/urology)
The paediatric surgery/ urology post provides excellent exposure to all areas of general and specialist paediatric surgery.

The neonatal medicine and neonatal surgery intensive care unit is based at St Michael's Hospital, which is in close proximity to Bristol Children's Hospital.

The paediatric orthopaedic post offers lots of learning opportunities with a daily trauma meeting reviewing acute admissions. There is the possibility to attend trauma clinic and theatre lists.


You will work in a well supervised unit and will learn how to manage children with a variety of surgical conditions.

You will be involved in looking after all children admitted to the Children's Hospital under the care of the Paediatric Surgeons, including children with oncology, thoracic, gastrointestinal, urology, and neonatal conditions.

You will be welcome to scrub in theatres and can learn some basic surgical procedures such as hernia repair and appendicectomy.

The 8 consultants all have at least 1 clinic a week and there is opportunity to attend these. In paediatric orthopaedic surgery you have the opportunity to attend fracture clinics and theatre lists.


University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

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For further information on this vacancy, please refer to the Job Description document attached or contact the team.

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