Job overview

This is a post for a Specialty Registrar in the Gastroenterology Department within the Surgical Care Collaborative in North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. The post-holder will undertake specific duties as part of the development of a multi-disciplinary team approach to care within the speciality and have access to endoscopy upper and lower GI training. 

The appointee will work across the two main NCIC hospital sites, Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle and West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven supporting inpatient and outpatient care, including the delivery of Endoscopy services for the local population.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join our team of consultants, specialty doctors and specialty registrars to provide an integrated digestive diseases service across North Cumbria. Associated with the transformation of all our services across the Trust, and in conjunction with the introduction of our model for acute medical care, it is envisaged that future configurations will focus complex inpatient work at the Carlisle site, and elective outpatient services (endoscopy and outpatient clinics) will be provided by all of the team across the Trust. The department has a dedicated GI ward within the Cumberland Infirmary at Carlisle for the treatment of inpatients. There is a dedicated 3-room endoscopy unit at the Cumberland Infirmary and the endoscopy unit at West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven has 2 dedicated rooms in a new, state of the art facility.  The successful candidate will join a team of gastroenterologists supported by nurse specialists across North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Sub specialty interest will be encouraged where this contributes to and complements the department and Trusts’ service needs. While appointees will be appointed to a base unit, all members of the team will be expected to contribute to all aspects of the general gastroenterology service across the Trust.

We have access to a medical day procedures unit that undertakes, for example, biologic treatments, ascitic drainage, liver biopsy and transfusions. 

Working for our organisation

The North Cumbria GI Service is a cohesive and integrated department, combining the services gastroenterology and endoscopy, upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, colorectal, emergency GI surgery.

The service provides complete care for patients with disorders relating to the gastrointestinal tract. Surgeons, physicians, specialist nurses and allied health professions work closely together to provide in house multidisciplinary care for all patients with gastrointestinal problems in the emergency, elective, inpatient and outpatient setting.

The specialties/core ward areas within GI Services are:

• Endoscopy
• GI physiology lab
• General Gastroenterology
• Hepatology
• Oesophago-gastric surgery
• Colorectal surgery
• Hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery
• Pelvic floor disorders
• Bowel cancer screening
• Nutrition
• Emergency GI Surgery
• Inpatient ward areas

   

  The Trust provides access to radiology services, CT scanning (including CT colonography), MRI (including MR Enteroclysis) and medical physics imaging on two sites.

  We have radiotherapy and oncology on site at Carlisle with outreach services to west Cumbria. There is a Palliative care consultant based on each site with links to hospice and community services.