Lead Consultant Clinical Endoscopist - Team Lead

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Lead Clinical Endoscopist at a forward-thinking NHS Trust. In this pivotal role, you will lead a dedicated team, enhancing patient care through expert clinical leadership and innovative practices. Collaborating with various specialties, you will drive the development of endoscopy services, ensuring high-quality outcomes for patients. This role offers a chance to shape the future of healthcare in a supportive environment that values professional growth and innovation. If you are passionate about making a difference in clinical practice, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Access to training and development

Support for career progression

Qualifications

• HCPC or NMC registration required.
• Significant experience in independent practice as Clinical Endoscopist.

Responsibilities

• Lead the clinical endoscopist team and improve patient care.
• Provide expert clinical guidance and leadership across nursing.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Governance

Research Expertise

Education

Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice

JAG Accreditation

Non-medical Prescribers Course

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend.

We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation determined to provide the best health care services for our local population and working in the best interests of the people we serve.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking Lead Clinical Endoscopist within the Mid & South Essex University Endoscopy departments.

As a Lead Clinical Endoscopist, you will be already experienced in working within endoscopy services and have a sound clinical management background, already display independent practice and be UGI & LGI trained with significant evidence of clinical practice. By working in collaboration with medical and nursing colleagues in other specialities, including anaesthetics, interventional radiology, infection control, cancer services, medicine and surgical services, you will demonstrably improve the care and outcomes for patients by providing expert clinical and nursing leadership for the further development of the service.

You will be expected to lead the clinical endoscopist team, influence and support national, regional and local strategy in relation to endoscopy services and will represent at Trust wide clinical meetings.

You will also be fundamental in supporting endoscopy training delivered through the Mid & South Essex endoscopy training scheme.

Main duties of the job

As a clinical expert in the field, you will be the named clinician for patients allocated to your case load within MSE and will fulfil the 4 domains of the Consultant role:

1. Advanced and expert level practice within their field

2. Professional leadership and consultancy

3. Development and provision of education and training

4. Practice and service development, research and evaluation

In this senior role you will demonstrate expert, high quality, values based professional practice that improves patient experience, across services, systems and at local level within the clinical setting. You will be required to provide highly expert clinical guidance and leadership across nursing and AHP disciplines, and to be a role model for safe, effect and high-quality care for our patients and service users within Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, including adult day cases.

You will provide clinical leadership and role modelling to Nursing and Allied Health professional colleagues across the organisation, in our mission to ensure that our general patient population is enabled to achieve the highest possible levels of good health, ability, and independence.

Working for our organisation

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting role as our Lead Consultant Clinical Endoscopist - Team Lead using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you?

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registrant with HCPC or NMC
• Master's Degree in Advanced clinical practice (or equivalent)
• JAG accreditation (Upper and Lower) clinical practice
• Non-medical prescribers course

Desirable criteria

• PG Teaching qualification
• MPhil / PhD
• JAG accredited BCSP Colonoscopy

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in independent practice as CE
• Development of research expertise, knowledge and practice
• Facilitating change across professions, producing innovative practice

Desirable criteria

• Project management experience / qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Impact of current government approach to area of clinical practice
• Robust understanding of clinical governance

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to lead developing and established teams effectively to meet clinical goals
• Excellent communication skills

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Lead Consultant Clinical Endoscopist - Team Lead - CSS - MSE -B8b - V5 (PDF, 624.3KB)
• Privacy Policy (PDF, 441.0KB)
• AFC Pay Poster 24/25 (PDF, 39.2KB)
• Behaviours Framework (JPG, 298.0KB)