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Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to join the Head and Neck /ENT team . Applications are invited for an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant to join Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust alongside five other consultants and numerous Specialty Doctors, Registrars, Nurse Practitioners and Audiologists. 

The is a full time, 10PA role consisting of outpatient clinics, operating lists, MDT attendance 

 The successful candidate will be working as an ENT Consultant concentrating on two week wait fast track patients and urgent suspected cancer patients , including operating on non-complex head and neck patients . Also general ENT clinics including paediatrics and covering the Consultant on-call sessions supported by the Specialty Doctors and Registrars. 

The Head and Neck Cancer/Thyroid service works as part of the tertiary group with Bradford and Leeds Hospitals where weekly MDTs take place and urgent activity referred to the tertiary partner. The applicant will be a core member of the MDT 

  Applicants must be on the General Medical Council Specialist Register, or within six months of being admitted to the Register for trainees, if in a training programme within the UK or be in the process of completing the CESR pathway. Applicants must continue to hold a Licence to Practise.  

The post holder will build and utilise governance links beyond the organisation, for example West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT) Network to ensure high quality care is provided to patients. 

Main duties of the job

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has comprehensive facilities for the diagnosis, care and treatment of ENT disease. The successful candidate will be expected to provide ENT services in conjunction with colleagues and will contribute to the development of ENT services.  

The trust is committed to changes in theatre timetabling to encourage more efficient use of resources, and is actively looking to pursue the provision of evening and weekend sessions as part of routine working.  

The post requires a flexible attitude to working practices, managing patients in partnership with other consultant colleagues and professional staff, and making the best possible use of resources put at the disposal of the department. This may require negotiated changes of duties and time-tabled sessions from time to time. All Consultants have a responsibility to liaise with their colleagues in order to co-ordinate their individual activities to ensure the clinical service operates effectively and effectively.  

The post holder will have 1.5 SPAs allocated in the first instance; of this 1.5 SPA, 0.5 SPA will be flexible in the job plan. 

Post-holders who wish to undertake and develop an ENT research portfolio will negotiate reasonable SPA time to enable research development.

Please note that we would like applicants to specify the procedure and numbers in the application to aid shortlisting.

Working for our organisation

ENT is part of the Head and Neck Directorate of the Division of Surgery and Anaesthetics. Each Division has a Divisional Director who is supported by a Director of Operations, along with finance, personnel and information technology support. Within the Division there are 5 Directorates.  

The Divisional Director is Mr William Ainslie, Consultant General Surgeon and the Director of Operations is Mr Tom Strickland.  

Each Directorate has a Clinical Director who is supported by an operational team with finance, personnel and Informatics support.  

The Surgery and Anesthetics Directorate includes: 

Anesthetics – Critical Care 

Anesthetics - Operating Services 

General Surgery & Specialist Surgery 

Head and Neck  

Trauma and Orthopaedics 

The Head and Neck Directorate includes; Ophthalmology, Orthoptics, Optometry, Ear Nose and Throat, Head and Neck Cancer, Oral Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery and Audiology. 

CHFT is a digital trust and therefore the successful post-holder will need to be comfortable in navigating a computer. This is an essential requirement.