Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment Nodal Points 4 (ST3-5)
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (Post to start from 31st August 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (+ out of hours)
- Job ref
- 321-MRC-MS-8131197-S6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horton General Hospital
- Town
- Banbury
- Salary
- £67,325 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
HGH LED in Acute General Medicine / Gastroenterology
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment Nodal Points 4 (ST3-5)
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Applications are invited for a 7-month locally employed doctor post within the department of Acute General Medicine (AGM) and Gastroenterology at the Horton Hospital. This post is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, forward-thinking trainee, who wishes to develop higher level clinical skills in AGM and gastroenterology within an active district general hospital, taking full advantage of the links held with other Oxford teaching hospitals and university institutions. The post will be for 7 months in total depending on a 3month probationary period to ensure that the job and person are the correct fit. By 3 months, we would expect engagement in a training portfolio process with satisfactory work placed based assessments, as well as supportive feedback from placement supervision groups.
Main duties of the job
The post is aimed at senior medical doctors (those who have completed MRCP) and should appeal to those who not only wish to pursue a career AGM and/or gastroenterology, but also Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine or Intensive Care Medicine. This post is not recognized for postgraduate medical training but will allow competencies to be gained that may count towards eventual CESR accreditation or competency based CCT. Applications will be considered from less than full time trainees.
The successful applicant will have a job plan which will comprise of Acute General Medicine, Gastroenterology, Critical Care Medicine and Ambulatory Medicine.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Horton is a District General Hospital in Banbury with an Emergency Dept, admitting a largely unselected medical take. It has a 16-bedded CCU that provides level 2 care for up to 4x patients. This includes non-invasive ventilation, inotropic support and close nursing monitoring. The medical structure for the CCU is a designated ward team looking after these patients under the supervision of rotating respiratory and acute medicine consultants.
Gastroenterology at the Horton provide both outpatient and inpatient services. There is no dedicated gastroenterology ward, but we provide a daily consult service. We have a state-of-the-art endoscopy suite with two rooms, which was reaccredited by the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal endoscopy (JAG), the gold standard for endoscopy services I the UK, in 2025. The unit offers outpatient and inpatient upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, and has received outstanding feedback for the quality of training provided. Outpatient clinics include general gastroenterology, as well as hepatology, family cancer, upper GI, and other subspecialist clinics. Services are provided by both Horton resident consultants, and visiting consultants from Oxford.
Both patients and trainees have full access to gastroenterology services in Oxford, including tertiary and quaternary level MDTs, specialist services in nutrition, hepatology, IBD, and Upper GI.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to inpatient gastroenterology consults at the Horton under close consultant support. They will also be offered the opportunity to gain experience in upper and lower GI diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. The successful candidate will also be invited to participate and contribute to the regional gastroenterology registrar teaching programme and the regional medical registrar teaching programme.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
- Should have completed IMT (or equivalent) and have completed MRCP exams
- Must have worked in the NHS for at least 6 months
Desirable criteria
- Critical Care Experience
- Ambulatory Care Experience
- • Gastroenterology experience
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Recognise the deteriorating patients and manage NIV
- Have knowledge of Inotropic support
Desirable criteria
- POCUS trained
Team Work
Essential criteria
- Evidence of excellence working with nursing and therapy teams
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
- Jennifer Challberg
- Job title
- Horton Gen Med Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Jordan Bowen
Deputy Clinical Director - AGM
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