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Job summary

Main area
HPB
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
164-8044590
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£113,565 - £150,569 10 PA job plan - extra PAs on offer after appointment
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/08/2026 23:59

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Consultant HPB and General Surgeon

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) as a Consultant HPB and General Surgeon within a busy tertiary service, delivering specialist hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB), Emergency General Surgery (EGS) and Major Trauma, care to a large regional population. 

The post offers a varied and rewarding role across elective and emergency pathways, including complex cancer surgery, MDT-led care, and outreach work, supported by a well-established multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting service growth, improving patient flow and outcomes, and contributing to NUH’s strategic priorities around high-quality care, performance and workforce sustainability, alongside opportunities in teaching, training and research within a major teaching hospital environment.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver a comprehensive Consultant-led service across HPB, EGS and Major Trauma, providing elective and emergency care for a complex surgical population. Key duties include undertaking major and day-case operating, outpatient and outreach clinics, and contributing to a high-volume tertiary HPB service within a well-established multidisciplinary team structure, including regular MDT participation. 
 

Working for our organisation

Every day, our teams at NUH make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives, and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
 
With more than 20,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and its surrounding communities and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond. Our Trust spans over three sites including Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House. We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services, and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.
 
We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
 
As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will provide a comprehensive Consultant-led service across HPB, EGS and Major Trauma, delivering both elective and emergency care for a complex surgical population. Duties will include undertaking major and day-case operating, outpatient and outreach clinics, and contributing to a high-volume tertiary HPB service within a well-established multidisciplinary team, including participation in regular MDT meetings and departmental planning. The appointee will be responsible for the management of inpatients and emergency admissions under their care, ensuring continuity and high standards of clinical practice, and will participate in a HPB, EGS and Major Trauma on-call rotas. 
 
In addition, the role includes active involvement in clinical governance, audit, risk management and quality improvement, alongside contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within a major teaching hospital.
 
The successful candidate will also be encouraged to participate in research and service development, supporting ongoing innovation and growth of HPB and general surgical services at NUH. 
 
Please see the attached Job Description for more information.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration
  • CCT expected by start date
  • Intercollegiate exam in General Surgery or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Completion of an HPB fellowship in resection and/or liver transplant
  • Higher degree (MD, PhD or similar)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Exposure to major complex HPB resections
  • Ability to perform liver and pancreatic resections
  • Independent in laparoscopic biliary surgery
  • Experience in major trauma surgery
Desirable criteria
  • Independent HPB consultant experience
  • Exposure to major complex HPB resection with vascular operating techniques
  • Experience in gynae ultra radical debulking
  • Experience in MDT processes including vetting and triage
  • Experience in robotic surgery

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, their families and other health professionals
Desirable criteria
  • Specific training in communication skills

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit
  • Able to teach and support junior staff effectively
  • Track record of Undergraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Peer reviewed publications and presentations

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
  • Able to delegate appropriately
  • Able to work in a team
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of change management

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Care Leaver CovenantNHS Rainbow badgeCareLeaver Covenantadded for NUH

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Glen Irving
Job title
Heads of Service and Consultant Surgeon
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Joint Heads of Service: [email protected] & [email protected]

Matron for HPB: [email protected]

Service General Manager for HPB and General Surgery: [email protected]

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