Locum Consultant in General Surgery (Emergency Surgeon)

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is expanding its General Surgery department and seeks a proactive individual to join their team. The role involves day-to-day management, teaching, and active participation in clinical governance, aiming to improve service delivery and patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or eligible within 6 months.
• Postgraduate degree related to General Surgery is desirable.
• Extensive experience in General Surgery and Colorectal Surgery.

Responsibilities

• Shared responsibility for daily management of the General Surgery service.
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service.
• Active involvement in clinical governance activities.

Skills

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Independent management of patients

Education

MBChB or equivalent qualification

FRCS or equivalent qualification

Job description

Our Trust is committed to career development which allows us to look out for individuals who are proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic to join our clinical team. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of General and Emergency Surgery at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and is part of an expansion to meet the rising demand of General Surgery in our area. The successful applicants will be offered the opportunity to work closely with the existing surgical consultants in the Trust to provide a high standard of care across the Trust.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the General Surgery department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful applicant will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and constantly to improve our service to deliver best practice guidance. We aim to deliver successful patient outcomes, whilst allowing patients to feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

Main duties of the job

o Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of theGeneral Surgery service.o Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary serviceo Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings anddirectorate clinical governance activityo Active participation in continuing medical education

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.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

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 description

Job responsibilities

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

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
• MBChB (or equivalent) qualification
• FRCS (or equivalent) qualification
• Licence to practice

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree (or equivalent) related to General Surgery (eg Masters / MD / MRes / PhD etc)

Previous Experience

Essential

• Wide range of experience in General Surgery
• Demonstrable training in Colorectal Surgery
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training, and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent diagnostic opinion, and to be able to take full responsibility for independent management of patients
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidence based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and participation in research

Desirable

• Experience of General Surgery in UK Major Hospital
• Demonstrable General Surgery consultant level experience
• Evidence of independent lower gastrointestinal endoscopy practice
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

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