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Job summary

Main area
General Surgery
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (FTC)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
230-32600175-SURG-S
Employer
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Town
Nuneaton
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/09/2025 15:00

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Locum Consultant Surgeon

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.

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Job overview

Locum Consultant Surgeon

Full Time - 10 sessions per week

Fixed Term - 6 months

Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum

Closing Date: 6th September 2025

Interview Date: 15th September 2025

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.**

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day. 

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The successful applicant will provide general and colorectal surgical services (with an interest to develop and paediatric service with an external unit) to the community served by the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. 

You will play a key role with colleagues across the directorates of Surgery, Medicine and Urgent and Emergency Care in further developing general surgical services. You will work amongst the Directorate of Surgery, in particularly the General Surgery Services alongside General and Upper GI surgeons.

All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. This is an exciting time to join the team at George Eliot with the development of two new surgical wards, alongside a purpose built Endoscopy suite.

We welcome informal visits and enquiries.

Main duties of the job

  • Take ongoing responsibility for patients under his/her care.
  • Provide a consultation service and advisory service to other clinical colleagues in other specialties within the Trust and Primary Care.
  • Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with medical colleagues in other specialties and participate in regular clinical meetings and other post graduate activities. Develop and maintain good communications with General practitioners and appropriate external agencies.
  • Participate and encourage two-way communications encompassing briefing systems as appropriate.
  • Comply with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures.
  • Ensure that all trust wide standards are maintained to improve the quality of total care to all who come in contact with services provided by GEH.
  • Ensure compliance with all appropriate legal and statutory requirements, including Health and Safety, Standing financial Instructions and Incident Reporting.
  • Share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers.
  • Demonstrate a firm involvement in Clinical Governance, Risk Management and Clinical Audit – this will include the development and maintenance of appropriate systems and practices to ensure continued safe clinical practice.

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care’  takes centre stage.  An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do.  Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits:  On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus  bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main purpose of this post is to support the Department and the Trust is maintaining a high quality service and to improve and maintain the RTT standards. This post is being offered on a period of 6 months fixed term, and interest in paediatric surgery would be beneficial.

Our surgical department provides a comprehensive and high quality general surgical service including advanced laparoscopic surgery. Your laparoscopic surgical skills will add great value to the already existing surgical service.

Person specification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Clinical training and experience in General Surgery and Endoscopy
  • Ability to offer expert opinion in a range of problems covering elective and emergency problems within the speciality
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
  • Adequate experience in operating on hot gall bladders

Qualifications and Professional Training

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration
  • Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register
  • Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
Desirable criteria
  • CCT (or CESR) in General Surgery

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
  • Ability to apply research outcomes to the clinical and surgical problems
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching basis clinical skills to undergraduates

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Positive interpersonal skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GP’s, nurses and other stakeholders
  • Commitment to continuing medical education

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.CTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementDisability confident employerStep into healthPride In Veterans

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Marimuthu
Job title
Consultant Lower GI Surgeon
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
024 76351351
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