Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- Locum Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 432-MI2724
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Gastroenterology
Locum Consultant
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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 in Gastroenterology for a 12 month fixed term post based at Ipswich Hospital.
The gastroenterology consultants work within a multi-disciplinary team, with access to modern endoscopy facilities and equipment. The aim of the department is to maintain an efficient and friendly service for our local population. The department promotes and develops gastroenterology services in light of rapidly evolving and changing technology.
The successful candidate will work as a Consultant in Gastroenterology with a sub speciality interest in any of: luminal IBD / advanced endoscopy techniques including EUS/ HPB services and general gastroenterology.
Main duties of the job
The post will consist of 10 Programmed Activities which includes 2 SPAs. Any additional PAs that may be required will be discussed, agreed and job planned with the successful appointee.
Each gastroenterologist spends 5 weeks looking after all the medical gastroenterology patients on a designated GI ward. Two ward rounds are undertaken per week when on the wards (see proposed timetable below). The care of the ward in-patients is supported by two Gastro StRs, one CT1/2, one VTS and one FI doctor.
When off the wards, the ward round sessions may be utilised for extra service provision such as an extra clinic and/or an extra endoscopy list dependent on the service needs at that time. Currently most of the consultants in the department work above the 10PA contract, however if the successful appointee would like to work to a 10PA contract then the sessional commitments for the appointee when off the wards would be adjusted to reduce their clinical sessions during this period, maintaining an average of 10 PAs per week over a rolling rota period. There is no general medical on-call commitment in this post.
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 are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring 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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The key duties and responsibilities are:
- General responsibilities including participation in Consultant on call rota
- Specialist Clinics
- Outpatient clinics
- Operating: as per specialty
- Teaching
- Other care of inpatients or outpatients
- Clinical and other administration as required by agreement
- Teaching and training of junior staff and undergraduates
- Participation in Clinical Governance
It is envisaged that the successful appointee will work with the existing 6 full time gastroenterologists on GI Triage 1: 7 weekend for triage, the GI ward and provide a 1 in 7 on-call GI bleeding rota caring for all gastroenterology in-patients with no GIM on call.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
- Full GMC registration with a license to practice
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems, relating to Gastroenterology and endoscopy
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients
- Ability to advise and run a smooth, efficient Gastroenterology service for both inpatients and outpatients
- Ability to organize and manage outpatient priorities and treatment
- Experience of supervising SPRs, CT1/2, FY1/2 junior doctors and nurse specialists
- Experience of research relevant to Gastroenterology
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate thesis
- Five years supervised training in an appropriate SpR equivalent training programme
- A specialist interest to expand or improve the current services being offered would be encouraged
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- Live within a 10-mile radius of the relevant hospital site
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
- Louise Scovell
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 703535
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