Position
We are looking to appoint a junior clinical fellow to our innovative and ambitious Plastic Surgery department. The role is a 6‑month appointment within a team expanding in consultants, workload and sub‑specialisation.
Responsibilities
* Assist in providing plastic surgical services to the Trust.
* Examine and clerk patients prior to both elective and emergency procedures.
* Support the plastic surgery ward round each morning Monday–Friday.
* Take responsibility for inpatient care on the ward alongside Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
* Complete discharge summaries and request forms for investigation.
* Support a 1‑in‑7 SHO level day and night‑time on‑call rota.
* Actively participate in the clinical audit programme.
* Deliver emergency care in the Hand Assessment Unit.
* Support the operating teams in theatre and treatment rooms.
About the Trust
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust is rated as good by the Care Quality Commission and is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK. We are extremely proud of our skilled employees across our hospital sites in Coventry and Rugby, providing high‑quality patient care.
Unit Coverage & Services
The Plastic Surgery Unit covers all of Warwickshire, including Stratford Upon Avon, Warwick, Nuneaton and Rugby for out‑patient clinics (travel expectations to these sites for clinics). Theatre lists are delivered across two sites: UHCW NHS Trust’s dedicated plastic surgery theatre and Rugby St Cross Hospital. In‑patients are predominantly cared for on wards 52 and 53, the surgical day unit and Rugby surgical day unit. The day surgery unit provides facilities for day‑case care, and there is an out‑patient department with a dedicated plastics dressing clinic.
The Unit manages Trauma, Congenital Abnormalities, Head and Neck surgery (limited to block dissection), skin cancer, facial reanimation, and partial and total Breast Reconstruction including oncoplastic surgery. It provides an acute and elective hand service. Microsurgical free tissue transfer is routinely used for breast reconstruction and major trauma. The Department has close links with Dermatology, Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Orthopaedics, General Surgery (particularly breast cancer surgery), Paediatrics, Cardiothoracic and Neurosurgery, Occupational Therapy (particularly in relation to hand cases), Physiotherapy, Prosthetic department and Breast Care Nurses. Major burns and cleft lip and palate cases are referred to the Regional Centre at University Hospitals Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital respectively.
Closing Date
This advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026.
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