Consultant in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

NHS; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Hull seeks a Consultant in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery to join a dedicated team. The role includes leadership in surgical practice, management of clinical services, and opportunities for teaching within an innovative environment. Applicants should have significant expertise in the field and meet specified qualifications.

Benefits

Opportunity for practice development with mentors

Engagement in education and research

Qualifications

• Must possess FRCS Vascular or equivalent qualification.
• Entry on Specialist Register or expected within 6 months.
• Extensive experience in vascular and endovascular surgery required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high-quality vascular service and performance.
• Lead and mentor junior surgical staff and trainees.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance and audit standards.

Skills

Wide-ranging experience in vascular and endovascular surgery

Expert clinical opinion

Management and leadership of surgical teams

Teaching clinical and operative skills

Ability to interpret and apply evidence to practice

Education

FRCS Vascular or equivalent

Entry on Specialist Register

Intercollegiate speciality examination or equivalent

PGC in appropriate subjects

Masters in appropriate subjects

Job description

Consultant in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

The closing date is 22 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for a consultant post within a high volume, high quality Vascular service to replace a retired colleague. This post will complement the twelve (full and part time) surgeons, nine vascular interventional radiologists and one perioperative vascular physician working in the department in Hull. Our department enjoys an excellent working relationship between surgical and endovascular consultants and has a very strong track history in education, training and research. There are fantastic opportunities for practice development with experienced mentors at hand.

Main duties of the job

A standard full time Job Plan will contain 10 programmed activities (with minimum 1.5 SPA). Any extra programmed activities will be agreed at the job planning process with the Clinical Lead. Any such agreement will be made in writing and the additional programmed activities will be incorporated into the Job Plan schedule. The programme will include flexible theatre activity to use spare (backfill) capacity and potentially may move in future to include seven day or Saturday working.

Please see job description for provisional job plan.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further detail in regard to this vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• FRCS Vascular or equivalent
• Entry on Specialist Register (or entry expected within 6 months)
• Intercollegiate speciality examination or equivalent
• PGC in appropriate subjects
• Masters in appropriate subjects
• MD or PhD
• Qualification in duplex ultrasound

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• Wide-ranging experience in vascular and endovascular surgery. Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCST in Vascular
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and planned within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Endovascular training and experience

Management and Administrative Experience

• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of service
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
• Ability to manage and lead surgical team
• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit, surgical directorate and working parties as appropriate
• Experience of audit management/Clinical Governance

Teaching Experience

• Experience of supervising FY1/2, CT and ST trainees
• Ability to teach clinical and operative skills
• Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
• Ability to teach research skills and supervise postgraduate research projects

Research Experience

• Ability to interpret and apply best evidence to clinical practice
• Ability to work with research team to maximise participation in research
• Completion of high quality research projects
• Publication in peer review journals
• Presentations to learned societies
• Success in attracting research funding

Personal Attributes

• Ambition, drive and commitment to achieve excellence
• Evidence of good team working
• Good interpersonal skills
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Caring attitude to patients
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GP's nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to continuing medical education
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
• Ability to promote the unit nationally and internationally

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust