Consultant Head and Neck ENT Surgeon

Consultant Head and Neck ENT Surgeon

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust offers a consultant ENT surgeon role with interests in head and neck surgery and laryngology. The successful candidate will join a team of head and neck surgeons and laryngologists, providing comprehensive services to the local population and tertiary care for a population extending across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team including SALT, dietetics, radiology, pathology and CNS teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively involved in the head and neck 2 week wait pathway.
• Manage patients with upper aerodigestive tract malignancies.
• Involve in laryngology including voice clinics and management of patients with upper airway stenosis.
• Contribute to the delivery of a head and neck diagnostic service.
• Work within UK CCT framework for Otolaryngology and contribute to audit management and improvement projects.

Person Specification Qualifications, Training & Experience

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or equivalent.
• Higher qualification in specialty e.g. FRCS.
• 5 years post CCT experience.
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible within six months of receipt of CCT at interview.

Aptitudes and Skills

• Appropriate knowledge base and sound clinical judgement.
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in Otolaryngology.
• Expert clinical opinion on head and neck surgery.
• Wide experience in ENT, elective and emergency outpatient and operative surgery.
• Substantive experience as a consultant surgeon.
• Experience delivering a head and neck diagnostic service.
• Evidence of effective multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
• Good organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Calm, compassionate, efficient under pressure.
• Experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research.
• Teaching clinical skills.
• Managing outpatient priorities and theatre lists.
• Managing and leading others.
• Audit management experience.
• Ability and willingness to work within Trust and NHS performance framework and targets.
• Enthusiasm and motivation.
• Application of research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Experience in airway surgery for upper airway stenosis.
• Experience running a voice clinic.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements available.
• Access to NHS discounts.
• Minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata).
• Generous pension scheme.

Living Trust Values

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.

Closing date: 6 May 2026.