Locum Consultant in Trauma /Upper GI Surgery

King's College Hospital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Locum Consultant in Trauma/Upper GI Surgery based in London. The post is 12 months fixed term, full-time 40 sessions per week, offering a broad surgical emergency service with teaching responsibilities.

You will work within the care group delivering major trauma care, with on-call duties and involvement in research, audit, and education alongside King's College London and partner trusts.

Qualifications

• Full FRCS and GMC registration to practise in the UK.
• Name on GMC Specialist Register or eligible for CESR/CSRS pathway.
• Experience in major trauma and emergency general surgery.
• Commitment to teaching, training and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality trauma and acute surgical care within the care group.
• Share 24/7 on-call cover on a 1:8 rota, with annual leave cover.
• Engage in teaching, examinations and CPD activities.
• Contribute to outpatient clinics and peripheral hospital commitments.
• Participate in research, audits, and clinical governance programs.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and support service development.

Skills

Leadership

Teaching

Research

Audit

Major trauma

Emergency surgery

Education

FRCS

GMC registration

GMC Specialist Register

MD or higher degree

Job description

Locum Consultant in Trauma /Upper GI Surgery

Main area General Surgery Care Group Grade Locum Consultant Contract 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 40 sessions per week (10 Session Per week) Job ref 213-MED-DH-8363530

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital Town London Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum excluding London zone allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 08/11/2026 23:59

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi disciplinary team providing and further developing care for major trauma and to provide and develop acute surgical emergency services to the Trust’s patients. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job

The post will be based at Denmark Hill, and the proposed Job Plan (up to 10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post.

The On-Call commitment is for a 1:8 rota, which is classed as Category A. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. Integral to these responsibilities is the following:

• The provision of a first-class clinical service
• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King's College London / KHP
• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across Southeast London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:
- Brilliant People
- Outstanding care
- Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
- Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Togetherwith othercolleagues, to providea high -quality care service topatients.Thisincludes all aspectsof treatment and relevant management dutiesfor the properfunctioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract
• Responsible forcarrying out teaching, examination and accreditationduties asrequired and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure
• Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan.This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty.This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post- qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained
• Workinconjunctionwithclinicalandotherprofessionalcolleaguestoensurethattheproductivity ofstaffwithinthespecialtyismaintainedandtheirjobsatisfactionisenhanced.Thismayinclude involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director .

Qualifications & Higher Education

• Full FRCS
• Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD)
• Full Registration with GMC
• Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
• On the day of interview applicants must be within 6 months of CCT or must have fully completed CESR application and be fully registered on the GMC specialist Register.
• Any applications that do not meet these criteria will not be considered.

Training and Experience

• Wide experience in all aspects of major trauma, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC
• Career interest in major trauma care with broad subspeciality experience and resuscitative as well as definitive surgical skills
• Damage control training DSTS or equivalent
• Major trauma fellowship, NGO or military experience, faculty level for trauma training courses

Administration

• Experience in day-to-day organisation of [major trauma] services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
• Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
• Management course and/or qualification

Audit and Quality Improvement

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
• Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
• Audit Publications

Research and Publications

• Experience of clinical research.
• Publication of relevant review articles or case reports
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of major trauma/emergency surgery

Teaching

• Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
• Teaching skills course/qualification

We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reports and Other Corporate Publications

King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre Website

King's College Hospital is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.