Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Consultant in ENT

The closing date is 08 July 2025

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Job summary

Consultant in ENT

We are seeking a dedicated and forward-thinking Consultant ENT Surgeon to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality care across East Surrey, Crawley, and Horsham Hospitals. This cross-site role offers a unique opportunity to provide both emergency ENT services general elective ENT, with a focus on Otology and Paediatric care.

As part of our commitment to excellence, you will play a key role in service development, focusing on elective recovery, improved resource utilisation, and innovative clinical practice. The successful candidate will integrate into the ENT department, collaborating closely with colleagues to enhance patient outcomes through evidence-based care, continuous clinical audit, and research-led advancements.

Main duties of the job

You will contribute to the strategic vision of the service, ensuring standards are not only maintained but continuously improved. With a strong emphasis on professional development, appraisal, and job planning, this role provides the opportunity to drive innovation and shape the future of ENT services within a supportive and progressive environment. Working with national initiatives such as GIRFT, the successful candidate will have an excellent opportunity to lead on the transformation of ENT outpatient care, including significant improvements to the front end of adult suspected cancer pathways in addition to the special interest areas of Otology and Paediatric care.

If you are a motivated consultant candidate looking to make a meaningful impact in both paediatric and adult ENT care, we welcome your application. For formal visits, please contact Mr Osama "Oz" Nooh - Deputy Divisional Director of Operations & General Manager (osama.nooh@nhs.net).

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon residents, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill, a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and outpatient and diagnostic services. In addition, Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding', and we are one of the best-performing Trusts in England:

  • Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
  • National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all we do.
  • We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
  • Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and whether patient care is the organisation's top priority.
  • Our workforce is amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey.

Details

Date posted

19 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum (depending on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

326-7091956-PN

Job locations

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH15RH


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.

Person Specification

Criteria

Essential

  • Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
  • A complete and accurate application
  • Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
  • Evidence of essential experience for role
  • Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
  • Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
  • Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
  • Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Person Specification

Criteria

Essential

  • Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
  • A complete and accurate application
  • Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
  • Evidence of essential experience for role
  • Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
  • Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
  • Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
  • Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH15RH


Employer's website

https://surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH15RH


Employer's website

https://surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Lead for ENT

Mr Guna Reddy-Kolanu

guna.reddy-kolanu@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

19 June 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum (depending on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

326-7091956-PN

Job locations

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Canada Avenue

Redhill

RH15RH


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