Senior Oncoplastic Clinical Fellow in Breast Surgery | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£45,715 - £69,976 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, England, United Kingdom, E9 6SR
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	27 Aug 2026
Closing date:	3 Oct 2026

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Summary

Job Title: Contract:Senior Oncoplastic Clinical Fellow in Breast SurgeryContract: 12-month Fixed term, Homerton University Hospital NHS

Department: Department of Surgery

Responsible to: Breast Clinical Lead – Mr. Mangesh Thorat, Breast Surgeon

Mr Ioannis Spyrou, Breast Surgeon

Responsible for:

Diagnosis, treatment and continuing care of patients presenting as emergencies or referred; teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff and other staff; conducting research and participating in development activities of the department.

Main purpose: To provide, in conjunction with consultant colleagues at the Homerton University Hospital a comprehensive out-patient, day stay and in-patient service for residents and for those referred from further afield to the breast unit.

The post is designed for a fixed period to allow the candidate to gain additional experience in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery. To ensure we can continue to offer this opportunity to others, the contract will run for a limited time and is not intended to be an ongoing post, except in exceptional circumstances.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Clinical Responsibilities

The post will be based in the Department of General Surgery. The post involvessupportingthesupervisingconsultantinthefullspectrumofclinicalactivityincluding main theatres, day surgery theatres, out-patient one-stop and follow-up clinics, paper clinics and ward work.

Homerton Breast Unit provides a full spectrum of Oncoplastic and Reconstructive services. This will provide an excellentopportunitytolearnfromexperiencedsurgeons,particularlyastheylookto providehigh-qualityclinicalcare.The appointee will be expected to performa full-time surgicalpracticewithaninterestinbreastsurgery.They willbe amemberofthebreastmultidisciplinaryteamandisexpectedtocontributetoandpracticeaccordingtothelocal,networkandnationalclinicalpracticeguidelines.Thereisnoon-call commitment in the post.

ResearchResponsibilities

HomertonUniversityHospitalhasanactiveresearchenvironment.Thebreastunitisactivelyinvolvedinmulticentretrials.The appointee will beencouraged start new research projects or audits in addition to participating in any ongoingtrials and national audits.

Management andClinical Audit

The appointee will be expected to take part intheroutinemanagementandadministrativedutiesassociatedwiththecareof their patients and the supervision of junior medicalstaff. The appointee willalso be expected to take an active part in multi-disciplinaryaudit,tobe involvedin attempting to improve the quality of care to patients and the timeliness ofcommunicationswithgeneralpractitioners,andtoachieveimprovementsinclinical riskmanagement.

There is a monthly half day session set aside within the clinical directorate at theHomerton for Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance during which all electiveclinicaldutiesaresuspendedtoensureattendance.Ayearlytimetableis available.

There is also an open-ended audit programme for all breast cancer patients,continuously auditing and evaluating several parameters as proposed by therecentNICEguidelines onbreast canceraudit.

Homerton University Hospital is committed to implementing the New Deal forjunior doctors, particularly on junior doctor’s hours.All the Trust’s consultants areresponsible for ensuring that the hour’s targets are met and the junior doctors’timetablededucationalprogrammes aremaintained.

Continuing Medical Education

ContinuingMedicalEducationisanintegralpartofthe fellow post.Theappointee will be encouraged to ensure that his/her full entitlement to CME/StudyLeaveistaken.FinancialassistancewithCoursefeesandtravelisavailable.

Teaching

HomertonHospitalconsiderstheteachingofmedicalstudentsandsurgicaltrainees of high priority.Homerton University Hospital has both undergraduateand postgraduate students, for which there are active teaching programmes.There trainees attend monthly half-day regional teaching sessions set aside forpostgraduate teaching.

TherearealsotwoPRHOteachingsessionseachweek(inlinewiththeUniversity guidelines) and the successful candidate will be expected to help ingivinglectures.

Please see job description and person specification for full details of the role.

This advert closes on Thursday 10 Sep 2026

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