Job summary
The Department of General Surgery consists of 12 consultant general surgeons with various subspecialty interests. Seven surgeons - Mr Ali Malik, Mr James Pitt, Mr Amir Morgan, Mr Lawrence Toquero, Mr Arshad C Malik, Mr Michael Crabtree and Mr Peter How - specialise in laparoscopic colorectal surgery (with ACM having started robotic surgery in the last year). Mr Thomas Groot-Wassink specializes in laparoscopic benign upper gastrointestinal surgery and thyroidectomies. Mr Philomen Dikki, Mr Martin Sinclair are general surgeons with an interest in benign upper gastrointestinal surgery. Mr Fahed Youssef has an interest in benign upper gastrointestinal surgery and emergency surgery. We currently have a locum colorectal surgeon in post for which we now aim to recruit a substantive consultant upper gastrointestinal surgeon which relates to this advert.
Main duties of the job
The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:
- Provide cover as a general surgeon
- Provide specialist general surgery services complex abdominal wall hernia surgery, laparoscopic hernia surgery, common bile duct exploration amongst many other benign pathology).
- Help to develop a metabolic surgery service at ESNEFT
- Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for admission to hospital
About us
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the ED
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated
- Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agree policy
- Become part of the ICENI teaching faculty in delivering or facilitating courses/programmes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients and the ED
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated
- Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agree policy
- Become part of the ICENI teaching faculty in delivering or facilitating courses/programmes.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via oCCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview oCESR or
- Training in laparoscopic surgery
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via oCCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview oCESR or
- Training in laparoscopic surgery
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.
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.
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).
