Locum ENT Consultant Surgeon with specialist interest in Paeds Otology

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in London is seeking a Consultant ENT Surgeon specializing in Paediatric ENT and/or Paediatric Otology. This is a fixed-term role until July 2026, addressing current service needs in a well-regarded ENT department. Responsibilities include patient care, administrative duties, and contributing to medical audits and training. Candidates are expected to participate in professional development and maintain high standards of practice.

Qualifications

• Participation in teaching and assessment of students and junior doctors.
• Engagement in medical audit and professional development to support appraisal and revalidation.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the care of patients in their charge.
• Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care.
• Participate fully in medical audit arrangements.
• Contribute to the professional development of trainees.
• Teach and assess undergraduates and junior doctors.
• Support the running of the department.

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Consultants will have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of their departments.
• Consultants will undertake administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinics or department. All Consultants are expected to assume responsibility both singly and corporately for the management of the Junior Medical Staff, including approving and monitoring junior staff rotas and locum arrangements where appropriate.
• The successful applicant will be expected to participate fully in the medical audit arrangements.
• Consultants are expected to contribute to the professional development of their trainees and allied health professional colleagues.
• All Consultants have a responsibility to contribute to the teaching and assessment of undergraduates and of junior doctors.
• Consultants are expected to continue with all aspects of professional development to allow successful appraisal and revalidation.
• All consultants may be required to support the running of the department in addition to clinical duties.

Qualifications and Professional Development

• Participation in teaching and assessment of students and junior doctors.
• Engagement in medical audit and professional development to support appraisal and revalidation.

Additional Information

Please view the job description for full details of the role.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025.