Job overview

Consultant in ENT

We are seeking a dedicated and forward-thinking Consultant ENT Surgeon to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality care across East Surrey, Crawley, and Horsham Hospitals. This cross-site role offers a unique opportunity to provide both emergency ENT services general elective ENT, with a focus on Otology and Paediatric care.

As part of our commitment to excellence, you will play a key role in service development, focusing on elective recovery, improved resource utilisation, and innovative clinical practice. The successful candidate will integrate into the ENT department, collaborating closely with colleagues to enhance patient outcomes through evidence-based care, continuous clinical audit, and research-led advancements.

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the strategic vision of the service, ensuring standards are not only maintained but continuously improved. With a strong emphasis on professional development, appraisal, and job planning, this role provides the opportunity to drive innovation and shape the future of ENT services within a supportive and progressive environment. Working with national initiatives such as GIRFT, the successful candidate will have an excellent opportunity to lead on the transformation of ENT outpatient care, including significant improvements to the front end of adult suspected cancer pathways in addition to the special interest areas of Otology and Paediatric care.

If you are a motivated consultant candidate looking to make a meaningful impact in both paediatric and adult ENT care, we welcome your application. For formal visits, please contact Mr Osama "Oz"  Nooh - Deputy Divisional Director of Operations & General Manager ([email protected]).

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities. 

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon residents, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill, a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and outpatient and diagnostic services. In addition, Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’, and we are one of the best-performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all we do.
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and whether patient care is the organisation’s top priority.
• Our workforce is amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey.