Locum ENT Consultant Surgeon with specialist interest in Paeds Otology

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Camden Town is seeking a Consultant ENT Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in Paediatric ENT and/or Paediatric Otology. This fixed-term position until July 2026 is developed to meet the current needs of the well-regarded ENT department. The role involves 10 programmed activities, with room for potential future permanence based on funding approval.

Qualifications

• Subspecialty interest in Paediatric ENT and/or Paediatric Otology.
• Ability to work within a well-regarded ENT department.
• Flexibility to adapt to changes in the job plan.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level ear, nose, and throat surgical care.
• Engage in a job plan equivalent to 10 programmed activities.
• Manage changes due to service requirements as per Trust policy.

Job description

Overview

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to invite applications for a Consultant ENT Surgeon with a subspecialty interest in Paediatric ENT and/or Paediatric Otology. This is a fixed-term post until July 2026, developed in response to current service needs within our well-regarded ENT department. While initially offered on a fixed-term basis, there is funding in place and a possibility that the post may progress to a substantive position, subject to future Trust approval.

The provisional job plan is equivalent to 10 programmed activities (PAs) and is detailed in the schedule enclosed in the job description. This will be subject to review as part of the annual job planning process, to be undertaken within 12 months of appointment.

Please note that elements of the timetable may be subject to change due to a Trust-wide reconfiguration of the theatre schedule, following the opening of the new Elective Surgical Centre. These changes be managed in accordance with service requirements and the Trust's job planning policy.

About the Trust

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care trust which provides hospital and community health services for Hackney, the City and surrounding communities. The Trust provides a full range of adult, older people\'s and children\'s services across medical and surgical specialties.

The trust operates acute services from a single site: Homerton University Hospital, which opened in 1986. Based on an aggregation of ratings across all of the core services provided from the hospital, the hospital has been rated by Care Quality Commission as \'Outstanding\'. The hospital has almost 500 beds spread across 11 wards, a ten-bed intensive care unit and maternity, paediatric and neonatal wards. Community services are provided by staff working out of 75 partner sites in Hackney and the City of London. The trust has a separate registration to provide continuing health care at the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Facilities

The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxillo-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.