Locum Consultant in General Surgery (Emergency Surgeon)

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR); Stevenage; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Locum Consultant in General Surgery, providing high-quality care while working closely with a dynamic surgical team at Lister Hospital. This role emphasizes continuous learning and professional development, ensuring a positive impact on patient outcomes in a modern healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or eligibility requiring completion of training.
• Experience in Colorectal Surgery is valuable.
• Ability to offer independent opinions and manage patients.

Responsibilities

• Shared responsibility for General Surgery service management.
• Engagement in clinical governance and continuing medical education.
• Supervision and training of medical staff.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Teaching

Multidisciplinary Team Participation

Education

Postgraduate degree in General Surgery

Job description

Locum Consultant in General Surgery (Emergency Surgeon)

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Main area General Surgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract 12 months (Fixed term: 12 months) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job ref 361-R2R-2476

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £105,504 - £139,882 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

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

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

Working for our organisation

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

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.

Detailed job description and main 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

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

Previous Experience

• 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, evidencebased practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and participation in research
• Experience of General Surgery in UK Major Hospital
• Evidence of independent lower gastrointestinal endoscopy practice
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals

Skills and knowledge

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

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [e-mail]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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Secondments/Fixed term

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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.