Consultant Colorectal Surgeon-Interest in Pelvic Floor Disorders & IBD

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon - Interest in Pelvic Floor Disorders & IBD

Main area Surgeon Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (additional out of hours cover) Job ref 213-MED-DH-

Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Site: King's College Hospital, Town: London. Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum excluding London zone allowance. Closing 10/08/:59.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work within a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team alongside consultant colorectal surgeons, gastroenterologists, gastrointestinal physiologists, radiologists, specialist nurses, oncologists and allied health professionals. There will be opportunities to lead service development, quality improvement, innovation and research within King's Health Partners.

The post is based primarily at King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, with cross site outpatient, endoscopy and operating commitments at the Princess Royal University Hospital and other Trust sites as service development requires. The successful candidate will participate fully in both the Colorectal Consultant on call rota and the Emergency General Surgery and Major Trauma on call rota.

• Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
• Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues' periods of annual leave and short term sickness as detailed in your contract.
• Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
• Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group's management team where part of the service structure.
• Contribute to the Care Group's research interests in accordance with the Trust's R&D framework.
• Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
• Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group's Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
• Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
• Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
• Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
• Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
• Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
• Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.
• King's is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.

Person specification Qualifications & Higher Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview
• FRCS or equivalent
• An appropriate higher general surgical/colorectal surgical qualification

Registration

• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT or CESR (CP) - proposed CCT/CESR (CP) date must be within 6 months of interview

Training and Experience

• Wide clinical training and experience in General Surgery with level III training in Colorectal Surgery, laparoscopic experience in General Surgery and Colorectal Surgery, independent practice in endoscopy

Administration

• Experience in day to day organisation of services in a busy Teaching Hospital
• Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi disciplinary teams

Research & Publications

• Experience of clinical research. Publication of relevant review articles or case reports
• Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of colorectal surgery. Higher research degree (MD/PhD)

Personal skills & Personal attributes

• Effective communicator, able to work in a close knit team and co operate with all medical and paramedical staff, flexible, able to cover colleagues' absence, professional attitude towards work, reliability
• Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills

Teaching

• Experience of undergraduate and post graduate teaching and exam preparation
• Teaching skills course/qualification

Audit

• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.

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.

Kind, Respectful and a Team.