Employer St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St George’s University NHS Foundation Trust Town London Salary £113,565 – £150,569 Closing 01/07/2026 23:59
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a specialist interest in either Upper GI disease or Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) disease and advanced endoscopy.
The successful candidate will join a highly regarded team delivering secondary and tertiary Gastroenterology and Hepatology services across South West London. The department provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy services, supported by specialist nurses, trainees and research staff.
The role offers the opportunity to develop either a specialist Upper GI and GI physiology practice, including transnasal endoscopy and pH monitoring, or a specialist HPB and advanced endoscopy practice, including ERCP and EUS within a tertiary HPB service.
The appointee will contribute to diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy within a JAG-accredited unit and national training centre, alongside outpatient clinics, MDT working, inpatient care and participation in the Consultant-led GI bleed rota.
The department has a strong reputation for education, innovation and clinical research through close links with St George’s, University of London.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide high-quality inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy care within the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering specialist Gastroenterology services with a focus on either Upper GI disease and GI physiology or Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) disease and advanced endoscopy.
- Providing inpatient care as part of a shared Consultant rota.
- Running outpatient and specialist clinics, including two-week-wait cancer referrals.
- Performing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy within a JAG-accredited endoscopy unit and national training centre.
- For HPB specialists: undertaking ERCP and EUS and contributing to regional HPB cancer pathways.
- For Upper GI specialists: supporting GI physiology and upper GI diagnostic services, including transnasal endoscopy and prolonged pH monitoring.
- Participating in benign and cancer multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Contributing to the Consultant-led GI bleed rota and weekend inpatient reviews.
- Supporting teaching, supervision, audit, quality improvement and research.
- Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to support service development and excellent patient care.
Working for our organisation
With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information regarding this position.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
- Full registration and license to practice with General Medical Council or eligible if currently working overseas
- Currently on the Special Register or eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register within 6 months of the interview date
- Higher professional qualification (MRCP or equivalent)
- Full JAG accreditation in colonoscopy and upper GI endoscopy
- Completion of a relevant management course / programme
- MD or PhD
- Published research papers/presentations
- Train the Trainer certification by JAG
Experience
- Comprehensive training on a recognised SpR programme or equivalent
- Understanding of clinical commissioning and implications for specialty
- Demonstrable experience in all aspects of Clinical Governance.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients
- Experience of leading clinical audits
- A track record in teaching medical and other clinical staff and students and giving clinical presentations
- Attended management course
- Oesophageal / upper GI or HPB experience in a tertiary centre
- Experience in management of complex oesophageal disease / complex HPB disease
- Experience in prolonged pH monitoring, and impedance planimetry
Skills and Knowledge
- Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage
- Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
- Ability to develop, motivate and lead multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to advise on the efficient and smooth running of a specialist service.
- Ability to initiate and implement change
- Ability to supervise junior medical staff
- Ability to design and deliver talks/ lectures/workshops effectively
- Good interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence demonstrated by the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels and disciplines
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Ability to critically appraise scientific literature
- Understanding of modern medical curriculum and of learning assessment tools
- Disability and equality awareness
- Writing successful grant application(s)
- Experience in GI physiological investigations, therapeutic upper and lower GI endoscopy
- Competent in transnasal endoscopy
- Competent in ERCP / EUS
- Strong leadership skills and performance driven
Other
- Caring and professional attitude and approach with patients
- Respects individuals’ rights, interests, beliefs, preferences and cultures
- Able to take responsibility and lead by example
- Approachability and capacity to integrate well with medical and other colleagues
- Commitment to continuing professional development
- Ability to work collaboratively with the Care Group team
- Excellent personal time management skills
- Involvement with national/international bodies
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The documents you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- an ultra violet image
- an infra red image
As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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