Job overview

This is a substantive consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients with vascular disease, and to provide and develop vascular services to the King’s NHSFT’s patients.  In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff. 

Major areas of vascular surgery in the Trust include aortic trauma, carotid artery disease, diabetic foot disease and vascular access surgery and elective open and endovascular aortic aneurysms repair. It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending upon their interests and experience.

 

Main duties of the job

The post will be based at Kings College Hospitals (Denmark Hill, PRUH, Beckenham Beacon and Orpington) and the proposed 10 PA Job Plan is attached. This will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

 

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:6 rota, which is classed as Category A. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.   Integral to these responsibilities are the following: 

1.              The provision of a first-class clinical service

2.              Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

3.              Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

4.              Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

5.              Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

6.              Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us. 

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon. 

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

 

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

 

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:

 

1.              Brilliant People

2.              Outstanding care

3.              Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education

4.              Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. 

At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.