Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. 

This post is available to commence on the 6th August 2025 initially for 6 months with a view to extension to 12 months. 

This post offers an exciting opportunity to gain experience in surgical management of Type 2 and Type 3 Intestinal Failure patients and complex abdominal wall operative skills and experience. This post requires close collaboration with medical intestinal failure team. 

There can also be exposure to advanced/recurrent Colorectal Cancer and Robotic surgery for which the trust is a regional centre, but main bulk of the job will be intestinal failure. To benefit from this opportunity the successful applicant will be ST3 or more senior. Applicants should hold full UK GMC registration with a license to practise at time of application. The appointee will have a flexible remit and we will be able to tailor training to their benefit from the specialties outlined above. At a minimum the appointee will have one full theatre day weekly, an endoscopy list and a clinic. While the ability to colonoscope independently is desirable it is not an absolute requirement and training will be provided.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The post is based at the Freeman Hospital with no on-call commitments.  The individual will work alongside the medical and surgical intestinal failure team.  This post is ST3-5 equivalent and the individual will, as such, be expected to perform duties and take clinical responsibility at this level. 

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Neena Randhawa Consultant Colorectal Surgeon on 0191 2824384, or via email at [email protected]

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.