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Job overview

Our clinical strategy by appointing an additional speciality doctor appointment to the gastroenterology department would allow important developments in service provision:

·         to enable us to see our outpatients in a timely manner 

·         to enable us to develop a greater range of specialty services and clinics; for example clinics for viral and auto-immune hepatitis, functional disorders/IBS, IBD transition clinic for 16-18 year olds, alcohol/decompensated liver disease, anaemia.

·         to provide a greater concentration of endoscopic expertise for GI bleeding emergencies thus allowing the Trust to develop as the major acute Trust in the region

·         to provide a seven day gastroenterology, consultant led and delivered service for in patients

Main duties of the job

·      Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Consultant Level to the Department

·      Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients of Ashford & St Peter’s, including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients, in accordance with Trust policies and practices.

·      Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload

·      Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate.

·      Engage fully with the care of patients outside the department and provide a prompt opinion on request from consultant colleagues in other specialties.

·      Engage with medical, nursing, management and all relevant co-workers in the delivery of department objectives: to provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience; ensure the highest quality clinical care.

·      Actively participate in and support other staff with education, research, audit and clinical governance activities involving a multi-disciplinary workforce across the department

·      Contribute to the GIM on call rota and ward cover.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org