Consultant Surgeon Upper GI
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Job summary
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has a vision to be recognised as a world-class hospital, leading the field through innovative healthcare solutions, focusing on the best outcomes for our patients, delivered in a safe, caring and inspiring environment.
This is a new substantive post to meet the increasing demands for expertise in benign UGI surgery, and to support the busy on-call rota with increased Consultant on-site involvement. Advanced minimal access and/or robotic surgery experience is of particular importance. The post is based in the UGI Surgical Unit to work very closely with 4 Consultant colleagues on a day-to-day basis to cover general aspects of UGI work.
The UGI Unit works as a team, with close collaboration among the Consultants to provide a unified approach to patient management. We share responsibility for decision-making and risk management, regularly operate together, and cover each others patients and lists when one is away.
Interview date: 27th February 2023
Main duties of the job
We aim to appoint a well-trained specialist in upper GI surgery with sufficient general surgical experience to be confident in the management of general surgical emergencies. Training and experience in a tertiary referral centre for UGI disease will be preferable, and a higher degree, UGI publications and ongoing UGI research interests will be looked upon very favourably. Ability to work very flexibly as a team member with existing colleagues is essential.
Minimal access surgical training in emergency surgery and benign UGI surgery (including cholecystectomy, hernias & hiatal surgery) is an essential part of this post as most patients are operated on laparoscopically in this unit. Being a competent surgeon entails more than just operative skills, and evidence will be sought as to the appointee's ability & judgement to manage post-operative complications and/or critically ill patients. They will be expected to be capable of UGI endoscopy including therapeutic procedures such as stenting.
The UGI Surgical Unit at Portsmouth is a recognised Cancer Centre for Oesophagogastric Cancer, with a busy MDT drawing patients from the Central South Coast Cancer Network (includes Portsmouth, Basingstoke, Chichester and Winchester). We routinely practice dual consultant operating, with Minimal Access surgery being our standard approach. Over the last 3 years we have implemented a Robotic Surgery program, using the Da Vinci surgical robot to assist with oesophago-gastric cancer surgery.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Details
Date posted
14 November 2022
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£88,364 to £119,133 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C8192-SD-22-1061
Job locations
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Portsmouth
PO6 3LY
Employer details
Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham
Portsmouth
PO6 3LY
Employer's website
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