Job summary
- Main area
- General Surgery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 10 sessions per week (Full Time 10 PA's per week)
- Job ref
- 434-MSCC-282
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Buckinghamshire
- Town
- Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/05/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon
Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust is proud to offer this exciting opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful parts of the country in an expanding general surgery department and colorectal unit.
This is a new position to join the existing four colorectal surgeons in this busy unit. The Colorectal Surgery Unit at BHT is a high-volume cancer and IBD surgical unit and has an excellent track record with some of the highest volume surgeons in England on NBOCA.
The aim of this appointment is primarily to improve delivery of elective colorectal cancer services to a very high standard and within timelines set down by NHS England, and to create capacity to allow provision of other benign colorectal services.
Planned AAC Interview Date is Tuesday 21 May 2024.
* Update - The Job Description received Royal College Approval on the 30 April 2024 *
Informal visits are welcomed and please see contact details below:
Arnold Goede, Consultant - [email protected]
Rame Sunthareswaran, Consultant & Clinical Lead - [email protected]
Main duties of the job
Purpose of the post
The purpose of this post is multifaceted: to expand, develop and provide simple and complex colorectal surgical services, and diagnostic colorectal endoscopic services with the rest of the GI and Gastroenterology teams; and to help develop and provide an acute inpatient and ambulatory care pathway as part of a cohesive specialist emergency team, and deliver emergency general surgery services as part of the whole department.
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Outpatient clinics at Wycombe General and Amersham Hospital
- To be part of the on-call rota
- Operating lists
- Endoscopy lists
- Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
- Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
- Participation in Clinical Governance
- Ward round to link emergency inpatients with cancer and complex colorectal needs, with the colorectal specialist unit and arrange further care
Planned AAC Interview Date is Tuesday 21 May 2024.
** Update - The Job Description received Royal College Approval on the 30 April 2024 **
Person specification
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- Ability to travel to and between sites
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of consultant
- Good personal and interpersonal skills
- Good spoken and written English
- Communication skills should be highly developed
- Experience of teaching doctors in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for its modernisation
- Management training and experience
- Computing skills
- Communication skills training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist training in Colorectal and General Surgery to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience and training in the surgical management of common, non-specialised emergency conditions in children
- Logbook evidence of experience in General Emergency Surgery, Colorectal Emergency Surgery and Minimally Invasive and Open Colorectal Surgery and Lower GI Endoscopy
- Logbook evidence of experience in Specialist Coloproctology
- Ability to make independent decisions at colorectal specialist consultant level
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for General Surgery and Colorectal Surgery via - CCT or CESR (CP) (proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview) - CESR or - European Community Rights (actual appointment only possible with full specialist register registration)
- An appropriate higher surgical qualification in General Surgery (FRCS or Equivalent)
- JAG accreditation in colonoscopy desirable but not essential at time of interview
- JAG accreditation in OGD desirable but not essential
- Evidence of independent competency in minimally invasive colorectal surgical techniques
- Robotic surgery desirable but not essential
- Other subspecialist interests / Research interests desirable but not essential
Trust Care Values
Essential criteria
- Collaborate - Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships.
- Aspire - Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Respect - Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Enable - Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rame Sunthareswaran
- Job title
- Consultant & Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Arnold Goede , Consultant Colorectal Surgeon on [email protected]
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