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Job summary

Main area
Gastroenterology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (With a possibility to extend to 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
356-24-6798525
Employer
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hull Royal Infirmary
Town
Hull
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/12/2024 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Gastroenterology

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Job overview

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, and motivated consultant to add to our established team.  Joining our 13 substantive and 1 locum consultants, the successful applicant will ideally have a subspecialty interest in hepatobiliary medicine, including EUS and ERCP.

Main duties of the job

This large trust provides primary gastroenterological services for a local population of 600,000 as well as tertiary services for over 1 million in 2 sites across the city and a nearby community hospital.  Inpatient care is provided on our 27-bedded inpatient ward at Hull Royal Infirmary.  Endoscopic provision is at both HRI and Castle Hill Hospital, and will move predominantly to a large state of the art Digestive Diseases Centre at CHH later this year.  The trust is a Level 2 Hepatology centre, and has a severe intestinal failure service with outpatient TPN provision.  There is a strong research pedigree particularly in Hepatology and IBD, and the Yorkshire School of Endoscopy is one of the busiest and longest-established nationally.

 

Working for our organisation

HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £500 million. The Trust employs around 11,000  staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.

The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.

HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively. 

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • MRCP or equivalent
  • Valid ALS certificate
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate qualification e.g. MD, PhD
  • • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Professional Registration

Essential criteria
  • Full Registration with the GMC with Specialist registration

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential criteria
  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
  • Evidence of participation in audit
  • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
  • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
  • Original peer-reviewed research publications

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to contribute to the efficient and smooth running of the unit
  • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
  • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
  • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Anca Staicu
Job title
Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01482 328541
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