Junior Clinical Fellow Cardiothoracic Surgery

Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow at foundation year two level or above in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Various start dates available from December 2025 for an initial period of six months with the possibility of extension.

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• Management of patient care under the direction of the Consultants in the specialty.
  
• To read, understand and abide by the clinical protocols in the respective specialties.
  
• Completion of accurate records, such as patients, notes and discharge summaries.
  
• Attendance at clinics, operating theatres, ward rounds and clinical meetings as required.
  
• Participation in a rota which will include out of hours cover, ensuring continuity of patient care/effective handover, including where available electronic handover.
  
• Attending and actively participating in ward rounds.
  
• Seeking advice or assistance from senior colleagues as required according to level of skills, and knowledge.
  
• Undertaking procedures which will be directly or indirectly supervised.
  
• Participation in clinical audit and maintaining medical audit records.
  
• Participation in teaching of other junior medical staff, undergraduate students and non‑medical staff.
  
• Participation in clinical and/or laboratory research of the unit as required by the consultant staff.
  
• Adherence to the clinical protocols of the specialty/hospital and to support developments/practices and new ways of working for the efficient and effective delivery of patient care.
  

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• Full GMC registration.
  
• Clinical training and experience at foundation level.
  

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state‑of‑the‑art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission – a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day‑to‑day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.