Locum Gastroenterology Consultants

Integrated Care System; Woolwich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking two Locum Consultants in Gastroenterology to join their team for a 12-month tenure at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Responsibilities include performing endoscopies, facilitating patient consultations, and engaging in medical education while ensuring quality patient care through effective governance and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Evidence of participation in audit projects.
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals are expected.
• Evidence of leadership and organizational ability.

Responsibilities

• Perform high quality diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy.
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings and governance meetings.
• Contribute to educational programs and audits.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational ability

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

MBBS or equivalent

Registered with GMC

MRCP or equivalent

CCT for Gastroenterology and General Medicine

Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust requires two Locum Consultants for 12 months to join the Gastroenterology team. The posts will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site with occasional cross-site working at University Hospital Lewisham.

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has two acute sites: Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) and University Hospital Lewisham (UHL). The hospital covers the London Boroughs of Greenwich and parts of Bexley, with a combined population of more than 300,000 people. Each site has a busy endoscopy department, each performing around 9,000 procedures. Lewisham is the lead for Bowel Cancer Screening across the six local boroughs.

This post is a 10 PA appointment and the post-holder will be required to do 3 endoscopy lists and 3 clinics per week. Post holders will also participate in the on-call GI bleed rota.

Main duties of the job

The Gastroenterology Department at QEH currently includes 6 consultants, 2 specialist registrars, 2 clinical fellows and 3 specialist nurses with responsibilities for inflammatory bowel disease, viral hepatitis and endoscopy. At UHL there are 6 consultants (some of whom work part time), two registrars, a specialist doctor and two specialist nurses (IBD and viral hepatitis). A number of specialist gastroenterology services have been established at the Trust including ERCP, oesophageal physiology, capsule endoscopy and fibroscanning. Facilities at QEH include a fully refurbished endoscopy unit with five endoscopy rooms, a new decontamination facility and recovery area.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

a. Clinical Responsibilities

The successful applicant will undertake three gastroenterology clinics with a general profile of 12 slots (5 new and 7 follow ups) and three endoscopy sessions consisting of 12 points per list (both mixed lists).

The main duties and responsibilities of the post include:

To undertake high quality diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy

To participate in the provision of a high quality out-patient Gastroenterology service, including patient administration

The post-holder will attend the weekly multidisciplinary meetings and monthly governance meetings

b. Medical Education & Teaching

To possibly contribute to the General Medicine educational programme

Act as a standard Consultant trainee for SpRs in Gastroenterology

c. Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance

Attend and actively participate in the regular gastroenterology governance meetings.

Undertake high quality audit projects and participate in the collection of data required to meet national quality standards. Under the supervision of consultants, junior doctors on the gastroenterology firms are expected to actively participate in high quality audit and present their data at national and international meetings. Junior doctors are encouraged to participate in research projects and publish case reports. The approach of the current consultants results in many of the junior doctors on the gastroenterology firm achieving at least once publication in a peer-reviewed journal or presentation at a regional or national meeting.

d. Continuing Professional Development

Participate in continuing professional development at local and national level

Implement audit and research findings as appropriate in clinical practice

Prepare and participate in an annual appraisal in accordance with Trust policy

A willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels

e. Policy, Planning and Management

The appointee will be responsible for the leadership of his/her team as appropriate within the specialty. Specific leadership responsibilities for areas of the service will be agreed on an individual basis and will be detailed in the postholders job plan.

The appointee is expected to:

• Be responsible to the Clinical Director for the effective and efficient use of resources under his/her control, to contribute to the planning and development of the service and to participate in directorate/departmental meetings.
• Be an active member of the Gastroenterology Team ensuring the delivery of the Service Plan and the targets in the NHS Plan.
• Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines
• Assist in ensuring that the Trust Clinical Governance Strategy is implemented as developed by the Clinical Practice Committee, Risk Management Committee and Education Committee.
• Contribute to good communications between the department and the other relevant staff/departments within the Trust, outside agencies including Social Services, General Practitioners, other Gastroenterology Departments in neighbouring Trusts and the Emergency Services.
• Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care
• Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service
• Comply with all Trust policies

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent
• Registered with GMC
• MRCP or equivalent.
• Other degrees, e.g. BSc MSc, MD.
• CCT for Gastroenterology and General Medicine

Audit

• Understand the principles of audit.
• Evidence of participation in audit projects.

Research

• An understanding of general principles, scientific method, and interpretation of literature.
• Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation.
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Personal Skills

• Evidence of leadership
• Organisational ability.
• Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations.
• Able to get on with other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Credibility and integrity.
• A sympathetic approach to patients and relatives.
• Ability to establish good professional relationships with others
• Critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
• To have undertaken a postgraduate communication skills course (or ensure that you have undertaken one within one year of appointment).
• An understanding of corpocracy in the NHS.

Management

• Evidence of organisational ability and experience of NHS management tasks.
• Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to consultant duties

Other requirements

• An interest in teaching and education
• Experience in the training or development of trainees in medicine.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.