Consultant Gastroenterologist

Responsibilities

• Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge, including administrative duties associated with patient care.
• Leadership, development and organisation of the services in line with the Trust’s business plans.
• Liaison and communication with the Clinical Lead, Divisional Director and Divisional Operations Manager for the Clinical Business Unit.
• Corporate and individual responsibility for the professional management of doctors in training.
• Full participation in the management of the department.
• Provision of a Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Service for inpatients at PCH and outpatients at any NWAFT site as required.
• Collaborative working with specialist nurses in these roles.
• Participation in the on‑call emergency bleed rota and the out of hours ward rota.

Qualifications

• MB ChB/MBBS or equivalent MRCP.
• CCT in Gastroenterology (or equivalent or within 6 months of receipt of CCT at time of interview) or on the Specialist Register.
• Higher qualification (e.g., MD, PhD).

Experience

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT Gastroenterology with General Internal Medicine and Hepatology sub‑specialty accreditation.
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion on a range of problems relating to Gastroenterology.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients to the highest clinical standard.
• Ability to organise and provide high quality outpatient Gastroenterology services.
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Publications in refereed journals; ability to pursue high quality clinical, health services or epidemiological research.
• Evidence of independent audit and research.
• Demonstrated awareness of clinical governance and a track record of engaging in clinical governance, reporting errors, learning from errors.
• Experience supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff; ability to teach clinical skills.

Skills

• Ability to undertake diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic treatment for portal hypertensive problems.
• Effective communication with other members/grades of staff, patients, families and General Practitioners.
• Critical appraisal of published evidence and application of research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Specific training in management (e.g., courses, practical experience).
• Training in communication skills, teaching, etc.

Other

• Full registration and license to practice with the GMC.
• Demonstrates honesty, commitment and integrity.
• Ability to work between North West Anglia NHS Trust sites.
• Member of Medical Defence Organisation.

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.

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