Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-5056-B
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- Edmonton London
- Salary
- £90,526 - £121,295 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Gastroenterologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint 2 Consultant Gastroenterologists to join our team .
These are new posts to support the expanding gastroenterology department and we are looking for someone who can help deliver our endoscopy service and contribute to endoscopic training as well as to deliver subspecialty outpatient gastroenterology. The post holder will also make an equal contribution to general medical and gastroenterology inpatient care on our home ward as well as to our out-of-hours GI bleeding service.
The post is for 10 Programmed Activities; however, part time applications or job shares will be considered.
Job description attached is pending RCP approval
Main duties of the job
- Provide senior clinician services to the department as per job plan or as agreed within the Trust, and as required when on call.
- Provide senior clinical support for specialty in reach to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU)
- Provide training for doctors, nursing and AHP colleagues.
- Maintain Joint Advisory Group in GI Endoscopy (JAG) and British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) standards in endoscopic practice.
- Participate in the out of hours GI bleeding rota.
- Work with consultant colleagues and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust’s resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.
- Provide senior clinician services to area of special interest as per the job plan or as agreed within the Trust. For a consultant Gastroenterologist, this will include providing endoscopic services, inpatient workload and outpatient services and working with colleagues to ensure the most efficient use of NHS resources.
- Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
- Actively participate in the Unit’s Teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
- Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The following is not an exhaustive or exclusive list of the duties of a consultant within the gastroenterology department.
- Provide senior clinician services to the department as per job plan or as agreed within the Trust, and as required when on call.
- Provide senior clinical support for specialty in reach to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU)
- Provide training for doctors, nursing and AHP colleagues.
- Maintain Joint Advisory Group in GI Endoscopy (JAG) and British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) standards in endoscopic practice.
- Participate in the out of hours GI bleeding rota.
- Work with consultant colleagues and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust’s resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.
- Provide senior clinician services to area of special interest as per the job plan or as agreed within the Trust. For a consultant Gastroenterologist, this will include providing endoscopic services, inpatient workload and outpatient services and working with colleagues to ensure the most efficient use of NHS resources.
- Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
- Actively participate in the Unit’s Teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
- Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit and CPD.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential criteria
- MRCP or equivalent medical degree
- Full GMC Registration
- CCST or CCT in Gastroenterology or within 6 months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate degree
Relevant Experience
Essential criteria
- Competent in diagnostic and advanced therapeutic endoscopy
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
- • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
KNowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Experience on providing high quality training and education to undergraduates and postgraduates
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Paul Maxwell
- Job title
- Clinical Director Gastroenterology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0200 888702683
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