Consultant In Hepatology

East And North Hertfordshire Teaching Nhs Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package up to £8,000

Visa and flight reimbursement up to £5

Total incentive support up to £13,000

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust seeks a consultant hepatologist to lead and develop liver services across hospital sites. You will work closely with nephrology and oncology colleagues to deliver high-quality inpatient and outpatient care, with opportunities for registrar training and involvement in academic activities.

The post supports professional development, has strong leadership expectations, and includes a commitment to improving patient outcomes through innovative teamwork.

Qualifications

• Specialist hepatology knowledge and experience in liver disease management.
• Current GMC registration or eligibility for registration to practice in the UK.
• Evidence of appraisal, revalidation, and participation in clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead hepatology services with strong teamwork across the Trust.
• Provide inpatient and outpatient hepatology care including endoscopy where appropriate.
• Participate in regional links and training programmes to maintain service development.

Skills

Hepatology expertise

GMC registration

Clinical governance

Clinical teaching

Audit & QI

Education

GMC Specialist Register / CCT in Hepatology

MRCP or equivalent

Job description

Job summary Please note that, subject to approval, financial incentives may be available, including reimbursement of visa and flight expenses up to £5,000, together with the Trust's standard relocation package of up to £8,000. This provides a potential total support package of up to £13,000. We are delighted to advertise for a hepatologist to join the team at ENH. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of liver services. We are seeking a consultant with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community. Hepatology has become a key specialty within the Trust, and its acute inpatient care has improved patient outcomes. We work collaboratively with other medical and surgical specialties including nephrology and oncology to provide a comprehensive local liver service, with access to tertiary hepatology support through strong links with the Royal Free liver unit. The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The liver unit, duties of the post and opportunities

The hepatology team

The hepatology unit sits within the department of gastroenterology and hepatology.

The hepatology clinical team comprises 2 consultants, 4 band 7 clinical nurse specialists and a band 4 Fibroscan technician. We have level II training accreditation, which brings with it a dedicated hepatology training registrar.

Inpatient hepatology

Supported by a hepatology registrar, we provide hepatology in-reach across the hospital, with particular focus in ED, AMU and ITU. This allows for hepatology support to be provided for the patient's entire inpatient admission.

Outpatient hepatology

We provide general hepatology outpatient services in addition to specialist clinics including viral hepatitis clinics, post-transplant clinics (with colleagues from the Royal Free), and ex-ward 'hot' clinics with a focus on registrar training. We have established CNS-led clinics for MASLD, stable cirrhosis and viral hepatitis. Fibroscan clinics operate at all three hospital sites

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

We have a substantive consultant hepatologist post available based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage which comprises 10 programmed activities (PAs) including an on-call commitment to the emergency upper GI endoscopy rota (approx. 1 in 12) and inpatient ward cover (approx. 1 in 20). The post does not include a commitment to the general medical on-call rota. In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Ability to effectively teach clinical skills
• Ability to critically appraise published evidence

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register / Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
• College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level
• Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree (or equivalent)

Previous Experience

Essential

• Broad range of experience in hepatology
• Competence in diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy
• Demonstrable experience in a Locum Consultant role
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience and participation in research

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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