Consultant ENT

The Methodist Church in Britain; Grimsby, Wallasey; Vor Ort; GBP 85.000 - 115.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

HealthHarmonie is seeking a six-month fixed-term consultant to support community ENT services across multiple sites. The post focuses on assessing and managing routine to moderately complex ENT conditions with outpatient diagnostics and selected day-case procedures.

Responsibilities include triage-based referrals, enhanced diagnostics, and senior decision-making for uncertain cases, within a community setting. GMC-registered ENT specialists with appropriate training are preferred.

Qualifikationen

• GMC registration with ENT specialization is required.
• Completed specialist ENT training is required.
• Experience in outpatient ENT care and triage procedures preferred.

Aufgaben

• Assess and manage patients referred through central triage or escalated from Tier 2 services.
• Carry out enhanced outpatient diagnostics including nasendoscopy and audiovestibular testing.
• Make senior clinical decisions on uncertain diagnoses and persistent symptoms.
• Manage moderately complex chronic ear disease and hearing loss.
• Assess nasal obstruction and chronic rhinosinusitis with appropriate treatment where commissioned.
• Examine laryngeal function and assess dysphonia with optional procedures.
• Biopsy or excise known benign lesions within ambulatory scope.

Kenntnisse

Clinical assessment

Decision making

Triage referrals

Ausbildung

GMC registration (ENT specialist)

Completed ENT training

Tools

Nasendoscope

Audiometer

Jobbeschreibung

A six-month fixed-term consultant post with HealthHarmonie, a provider of community NHS services, bringing ENT care closer to patients' homes across several sites. The work centres on assessing and managing routine and moderately complex ear, nose and throat conditions, with outpatient diagnostics and selected commissioned day-case procedures. The post is distinct for its community setting, taking referrals from central triage and Tier 2 escalations rather than standard hospital ENT. Fit depends on GMC specialist registration and completed specialist ENT training.

What the job involves

• Assess and manage patients referred through central triage or escalated from Tier 2 services
• Carry out enhanced outpatient diagnostics, including nasendoscopy, otomicroscopy, audiovestibular testing and imaging review
• Make senior clinical decisions on uncertain diagnoses, persistent symptoms and cases needing specialist ENT assessment
• Manage moderately complex chronic ear disease, recurrent otitis, selected dry perforations, hearing loss and tinnitus, excluding tertiary otology
• Manage persistent nasal obstruction, chronic rhinosinusitis, uncomplicated nasal polyps and septal deviation, with definitive treatment where commissioned
• Manage persistent globus, benign tonsillar disease and low-risk dysphonia, including laryngeal examination
• Assess recurrent epistaxis needing enhanced specialist assessment or an agreed outpatient procedure
• Biopsy or excise known benign lesions within the commissioned ambulatory scope
• Perform commissioned low-risk ambulatory and day-case procedures, including septoplasty, grommets, selected myringoplasty, day-case tonsillectomy and selected FESS, subject to facilities, workforce and anaesthetic…
• Accept suitable trust waiting-list patients for ambulatory or day-case pathways where records and investigations are in place