Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA contract)
- Job ref
- 196-CON1038
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum excl. London Zone
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/06/2025
Employer heading

Oesophageal Consultant- Gastroenterology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This is a consultant post subspecialising in upper gastrointestinal disease who will help us meet the challenges of our expanding clinical, academic and training portfolio.
Our vision is that the Guy’s & St. Thomas’/King’s Health Partners (KHP) Digestive Diseases Unit will provide clinical, training and research excellence that consistently meets and exceeds the expectations of its patients and peers.
Main duties of the job
The Department of Gastroenterology is seeking a new full-time (10 PA) Consultant Gastroenterologist to join a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team. The department is currently involved in many exciting initiatives and are looking for an individual with appropriate skills to complement this team and help keep the service in the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.
The Department offers a wide range of services to patients with gastroenterological and liver disorders. As part of Kings Health Partners GSTT offers a wide range of tertiary interventional luminal and pancreatico-biliary endoscopy including advanced endoscopic therapies for upper gastrointestinal malignancies and benign disease such as endoscopic mucosal resection, submucosal dissection, endoscopic myotomies and radiofrequency ablation. In addition the department offers inpatient and outpatient hepatology services to both the local population and supporting other specialised services including dermatology, renal medicine, and haemophilia.
Working for our organisation
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will:
· Put patients first
· Take pride in what they do
· Respect others
· Strive to be the best
· Act with integrity
Our values and behaviours framework| describes what it means for every one of us in the Trust to put our values into action.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please note that the job description is currently being approved by the Royal College of Physicians**
The aim of this post is to provide clinical capacity for the current Oesophageal service and to help develop the service towards becoming a tertiary centre for Complex Benign and early oesophago-gastric malignant Disease. It is also to provide support to the specialised endotherapy treatment program for patients with Barrett’s Oesophagus and early oesophageal and gastric cancer. This includes:
x Participating in both out-patient and in-patient gastroenterology and physiology service activity, including general gastroenterology and endoscopy, and deliver an exemplary standard of care. There may also be a requirement to provide general medical care on an infrequent basis including post take ward rounds
x To work within, and help develop, a large, expert multidisciplinary team.
x To play a significant role in the leadership and continuous improvement of the service.
x To collaborate with other members of Kings Health Partners including clinical sessions at Kings College Hospital subject to job planning
x To contribute to a culture of research and development.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training:
Essential criteria
- MBBS (or equivalent) Registered with GMC and hold a licence to practise MRCP or equivalent Completed specialist training in gastroenterology (or within 6 months of CCT date)
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (MD, PhD)
Clinical Experience:
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in all aspects of Gastroenterology Documented experience in hepatology (at least 6 months)
Desirable criteria
- Broad ranging experience in tertiary hepatology unit
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team Fully competent in upper GI, lower GI endoscopy with documentation of performance indicators Fully competent in the assessment of hepatitis B and C
Desirable criteria
- Documented experience and ability to perform advanced therapeutic endoscopy, endoscopic management of portal hypertension, or abdominal ultrasound.
Management:
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management Documented experience in leading quality improvement Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management Attendance at leadership and management course
Desirable criteria
- Development of clinical guidelines Experience of management and quality improvement particularly in hepatology
Other:
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
- Publications/abstracts Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
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
- Dr Zeki
- Job title
- Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07725734524
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