Consultant in Gastroenterology

Job description

Job responsibilities

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JOB TITLE: Consultant in Gastroenterology

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Substantive

PROFESSIONALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO: Group Medical Director

MANAGERIALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO: Chief of Service for Medical Care Group

SALARY SCALE: Consultant £94,615.64 £170,025.62

(Dependent on experience, points 18-20 by application and panel agreement only)

BASIC PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES: 10

TOTAL PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES: 10

ON-CALL COMMITMENT: On-Call for GI bleeds

Health & Community Services is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic substantive Consultant in Gastroenterology. The successful applicant will join a team of two Consultant Gastroenterologists, two Staff Grades and a team of specialist nurses to provide a comprehensive service in Gastroenterology. The successful applicant will ideally have a specialist interest.

The successful candidate will have broad experience of inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology and hepatology, fully competent in diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, including management of GI bleeding.

The applicant will undertake inpatient specialist reviews where requested and take part in GI-Bleed on-call rota

Medical/Secretaries/Offices

There are dedicated medical secretaries (2 FTE) supporting the consultants and their team based within the Endoscopy Unit

The consultants have a shared office space with IT facilities.

Leadership & Management

• Take part in management and audit activities to support the Care Group Leadership team & Public Health in planning for services and ensuring the service meets key performance indications including excellent patient care.
• The post holder will be expected to take part in management and audit activities and represent the service at Hospital meetings, as agreed with colleagues.
• The post holder will be expected to be fully involved in a Risk Management programme and support the Governance agenda.
• Represent the service at Hospital meetings, as agreed with colleagues.

Teaching and Research

The department is recognized for junior doctors from the Wessex deanery and medical students from Southampton and active teaching is encouraged in this role. It is expected that the post holder is participating in the training of Medical staff and that the candidate will ensure that the training and learning needs are identified and facilitated. This includes educational support for the clinical fellows recruited directly to Health & Community Services.

The post holder should deliver training to a range of professionals across the multi disciplinary team in stroke medicine to create a service of excellence for Jersey.

Opportunities for participating in research are supported when appropriate. The Health & Community Services has a policy for professional leave and is supportive of external duties for the good of the wider profession.

The appointee will take part in the GI bleed on-call rota alongside the other two consultant gastroenterologists which will be reflected in the final job plan.

There are currently two Gastroenterology Consultants. Dr David Ng with special interest in bowel cancer screening and IBD, and Dr Moses Duku with special interests in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and wireless capsule enteroscopy. They are supported by a nurse endoscopist and IBD nurse specialist, Consultant Radiologist with special interest diagnostic gastroscopy and EUS, two middle grade doctors, three junior training doctors, specialist nurses in alcohol and IBD, dieticians, a clinical investigations unit which performs 24 hours pH, and C13 urea breath tests and a fibroscan service. There is a close working relationship with the GI surgery, radiology (diagnostic and interventional), pathology and oncology departments and we run a weekly GI MDT.

Our endoscopy unit has highly motivated staff and performs a wide range of endoscopic procedures. The unit currently comprises of two endoscopy suites, fully equipped with all the latest Olympus equipment. The overall endoscopic workload is around 5,000 cases per annum, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, EMR, EUS, stenting, treatment of gastro-oesophageal varices, insertion of feeding gastrostomy tubes, balloon dilatation, APC, wireless capsule enteroscopy and a flexible sigmoidoscopy bowel cancer screening service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Degree
• Higher Specialty qualification: MRCP or equivalent
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a Licence to practise (for overseas candidates it is mandatory that a licence is obtained prior to appointment).
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent in Gastroenterology (or be within 6 months of obtaining this at the date of the interview - documentary evidence of this must be provided to support your application)
• ALS trained

Desirable

• Clinical Experience in similar NHS environment or equivalent
• MS or MD
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent in Hepatology (or be within 6 months of obtaining this at the date of the interview - documentary evidence of this must be provided to support your application)
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent in General Medicine (or be within 6 months of obtaining this at the date of the interview - documentary evidence of this must be provided to support your application)

Leadership & Management Skills

Essential

• Evidence of Clinical Leadership
• Experience of Teaching,Training & Supervision of Junior Medical Staff and undergraduate students
• An understanding of and ability to demonstrate your ability to:
• Empower others
• Lead through change
• Influence strategically
• Collaborative working
• Drive for Improvement
• Integrity

Experience

Essential

• Broad experience in Gastroenterology
• Enthusiastic Teacher
• General medicine on-call consultant experience
• Diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy
• Ability to perform emergency endoscopy for GI bleed
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of general medical patients

Desirable

• Broad experience in General Medicine
• Broad experience in Hepatology
• Previous Management Responsibility / Leadership Experience
• Recognised period of work in a liver unit
• JAG accredited Endoscopist

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

Health and Community Services

Address

Government Of Jersey

19-21 Broad Street

St. Helier

Jersey

Channel Islands

JE2 3RR

Employer's website

https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)