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Main area
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
176-E-SY-2134670-A
Employer
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Peterborough City Hospital
Town
Peterborough
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/07/2024 23:59

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Consultant Gastroenterologist

Consultant

Job overview

Have you considered developing your professional career while enjoying a healthier work life balance?

At North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, you will find the best place for you! You will have the chance to develop your medical research skills and confidence under the guidance of an inspiring team.

We are welcoming driven and innovative Consultants with enthusiasm and commitment to quality clinical care to join the team and help us develop and expand our Gastroenterology Services to accommodate the growing needs of our communities we serve.

We are a Postgraduate Medical Education Centre with a reputation for teaching and training with strong links with Leicester and Cambridge.

Our Endoscopy units are JAG accredited offering excellent training opportunities in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

You can pursue exciting opportunities such as developing an Endoscopic Ultrasound Service and expanding our IBD service. We will support and develop you to lead the way.

We believe in flexibility and a work/life balance. If you wish to work less than full time, we are happy to consider part time and job share requests.

If you wish to discuss this role or arrange an information meeting, please contact Dr Phil Roberts, Clinical Lead Gastroenterology and Hepatology at [email protected].

Main duties of the job

The sessional commitments consist of 10 Programmed Activities per week: 8.5 PAs of direct clinical care and 1.5PA of supporting professional activities. You will have to opportunity to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including personal and professional objectives within three months of your start date. A different number of PA’s may be accommodated through negotiation. 

You will be part of the Gastroenterology team working closely with the Hepatology Team. Your daily responsibilities will include the provision of inpatient and outpatient high-standard care with support from a multidisciplinary team.

Outpatient clinics will take place on a weekly basis. There will be an option for time in lieu or additional payment if extra duties are covered by prior agreement.

There will be appropriate administrative and secretarial support for this role.

You will perform administrative duties, teaching medical students, trainee advanced care practitioners and specialist nurses, and participate in weekly postgraduate meetings. In addition, you will actively contribute to audit, governance, morbidity and mortality and training meetings. Appropriate administrative and secretarial support will be provided for you.

You will have an overriding duty of care to patients and are expected to comply fully with best practice standards. You will have a responsibility to comply with Trust policies for personal and patient safety and for prevention of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI).

Working for our organisation

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust provides acute care to our local communities via two District General Hospitals in Peterborough and Huntingdon, and a community hospital in Stamford.

We are promoting flexible working and a health work/home life balance. Agile working options are automatically considered for all roles within the Trust.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates from our local communities.

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

  • Relocation allowance in line with the Trust policy
  • Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
  • Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
  • Free staff car parking on all our hospital sites during this financial year
  • In-house Physiotherapy Services
  • Career development and training opportunities
  • Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support, access to mobile apps and 24/7 counselling services
  • Subsidised meals at our hospital restaurants
  • Access to exclusive discounts, cashback and vouchers via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card

If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to Team North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you require more information, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MB ChB/MBBS or equivalent MRCP
  • CCT in Gastroenterology (or equivalent or within 6 months of receipt of CCT at time of interview) or on the Specialist Register
Desirable criteria
  • Higher qualification (e.g. MD, PhD)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT Gastroenterology with General Internal Medicine and Hepatology sub-speciality accreditation.
  • Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems relating to Gastroenterology.
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients to the highest clinical standard.
  • Ability to organise and affect high quality outpatient Gastroenterology services.
  • Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
  • Publications in referred journals. Ability to pursue high quality clinical, health services or epidemiological research.
  • JAG Accredited Endoscopist.
  • Evidence of ability to pursue independent audit and research
  • Clinical governance: demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Awareness of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors
  • Evidence of ability to pursue independent research

Key Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to undertake diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic treatment for portal hypertensive problems.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Full Registration and license to practice with the GMC
  • Demonstrates honesty, commitment and integrity
Desirable criteria
  • Member of Medical Defence Organisation

Commitment to Clinical Governance/improving quality of patient care

Essential criteria
  • Clinical governance: demonstrates awareness of good decision-making. Awareness of own limitations. Track record of engaging in clinical governance: reporting errors, learning from errors.
  • Audit: experience of audit.
  • Teaching: experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff; ability to teach clinical skills.
  • Research: ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems; ability to critically appraise published evidence. Evidence of research experience.

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate with other members/ grades of staff, patients, families and General Practitioners.
  • Commitment to multidisciplinary work
Desirable criteria
  • Specific training in communications skills, teaching etc

Planning Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of involvement in service developments/ planning.
  • Evidence of leadership skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of successful implementation of new working patterns/methods

Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of the corporate structure of NHS Trusts, the NHS plan and clinical governance
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of specific training in management (e.g. courses, practical experience)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Dr Phil Roberts
Job title
Clinical Lead Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Candidates are also very welcome to arrange an appointment to come and visit our Chief Medical Officer or Chief Executive for informal discussions.

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