Job summary
- Main area
- ENT
- Grade
- Locum Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 432-MI2837
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery
Locum Consultant
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
We are inviting applications for a full time locum consultant with a special interest in either Head & Neck surgery / Rhinology/ Otology/ Paediatrics.
The new post holder will be based predominantly at Ipswich Hospital - a shared cross cover on call service provision is in place with Colchester Hospital (35 minutes apart by car) with emergency care alternating between sites on a weekly basis.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant led service with the highest standard of care.
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines.
- Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, outpatients and the ED department.
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care.
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership and junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary.
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility.
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained.
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated.
- Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements.
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the trust’s agreed policy.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We have invested in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation has brought what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:
- Provide cover as an ENT surgeon with a special interest in line with the needs of the department.
- To play an active part in education programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the unit.
- To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate.
- Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for referral to hospital
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice
- FRCS ORL-HNS or equivalent higher qualification
- Adequate specialist training in ENT surgery
- Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
- At least 5 years at HST level (or equivalent)
- Role as a consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks
- Ability to lead and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
- Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities and waiting times / lists
- Ability to supervise, appraise, coach and mentor trainee and other doctors
- Ability to teach clinical and operative skills commitment to continuing medical education
- Educational/Clinical Supervisor (the necessary training will be provided for applicants that have not undertaken these roles previously)
Desirable criteria
- Fellowship
- Entry on Specialist Register (or entry expected within 6 months)
- Evidence of work submitted for Peer review
- Evidence of having undertaken audit work that has brought about change
- Evidence of having undertaken original research
- Management training and experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Mr Dimitrios Ioannidis
- Job title
- Clinical Lead - Ipswich
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 712233
- Additional information
Requests for visits to the unit should be made to:
Mrs Sinead Hendricks-Tann - General Manager
Mr Dimitrios Ioannidis - Clinical Lead – Ipswich
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