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Job summary

Main area
Otolaryngology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
321-MS-CON-6419101-S5
Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Churchill Hospital
Town
Oxford
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant in Otolaryngology with a Special Interest in Head & Neck

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit  http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

 


 

Job overview

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES:

The post holder’s duties will include working at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and the Hospitals in Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder be willing to work in any of each Trust’s locations.

Clinical

The post holder will provide general ENT elective and emergency care, with an on-call commitment of 1 in 14. They will provide general ENT service at the secondary care level and participate in emergency service cover at the consultant level.

Main duties of the job

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES:

The post holder’s duties will include working at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and the Hospitals in Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder be willing to work in any of each Trust’s locations.

Clinical

The post holder will provide general ENT elective and emergency care, with an on-call commitment of 1 in 14. They will provide general ENT service at the secondary care level and participate in emergency service cover at the consultant level. 

Teaching/Research

Clinical Governance

Personal and Professional Development

Management

Risk Management

Responsibilities for Health & Safety

Infection Control

All staff employed by the Trust have the following key responsibilities:

·         Staff must decontaminate their hands prior to and after direct patient contact or contact with the patient’s surroundings.

·         Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust.

·         Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.

Equality and Diversity

Freedom of Information

Patient and Public Involvement

Serious Incidents

Children’s Rights

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

Information Governance

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES:

The post holder’s duties will include working at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and the Hospitals in Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder be willing to work in any of each Trust’s locations.

Clinical

The post holder will provide general ENT elective and emergency care, with an on-call commitment of 1 in 14. They will provide general ENT service at the secondary care level and participate in emergency service cover at the consultant level. 

Teaching/Research

Clinical Governance

Personal and Professional Development

Management

Risk Management

Responsibilities for Health & Safety

Infection Control

All staff employed by the Trust have the following key responsibilities:

·         Staff must decontaminate their hands prior to and after direct patient contact or contact with the patient’s surroundings.

·         Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust.

·         Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.

Equality and Diversity

Freedom of Information

Patient and Public Involvement

Serious Incidents

Children’s Rights

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

Information Governance

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria
  • Medical Degree
  • Full GMC registration with licence to practice
  • Specialist Register for ENT via CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) or CESR
  • Experience of working in the NHS at registrar level or higher
  • Demonstrable special experience in Head & Neck
Desirable criteria
  • Higher Degree
  • Fellowship in Head & Neck

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completion of training in ENT to enable entry on the GMC Specialist Register for ENT via CCT or CESR
  • Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent leadership skills.
  • Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of consultant in a teaching hospital.
  • Effective administration and time management skills.
  • Training in clinical management.
  • Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
  • Good written English
  • Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
  • Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification.
  • Education qualification
  • Peer reviewed publications.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lisa Fraser
Job title
ENT Consultant/Head and Neck Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
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