Consultant in General Surgery with an interest in Upper GI Surgery

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Consultant in General Surgery with an interest in Upper GI Surgery NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area General Surgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent: 1:8 on call Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (1:8 on call) Job ref 197-AA8447

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

PLEASE NOTE WE ARE SEEKING 2 SUBSTANTIVE UGI

We are seeking to recruit x2 enthusiastic, progressive consultants to join our general surgery department. The post will include managing elective and emergency general surgery. There are distinct training and supervisory roles to mentor medical students as well as trainees.

The appointees must possess advanced laparoscopic skills. An understanding of streamlining of care and continued adherence with best-practice guidelines is also essential. Upper GI Surgical training and endoscopy experience are also essential.
The appointees should be a fully trained general and benign upper GI surgeon.

Main duties of the job

This post will improve the quality and long term sustainability of the care of our general surgery patients in line with both the Trust's and Commissioners' intentions. The post holder will lead transformational change and help develop further an innovative, modern surgical service as well as provide teaching to undergraduate & postgraduate trainees, in liaison with the other Consultant members of the Department.

The job plan will consist of ten programmed activities (10 PAs), including 1.5 SPAs and emergency work. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in an internal arrangement to provide cross-cover during absences.

The Department holds regular audit, clinical and business meetings. All consultants and junior staff are expected to attend unless prior notice is given.

These fixed commitments within the timetable may be subject to change depending on the needs of the department. The post-holder will be expected to demonstrate flexibility in frequency and arrangement of outpatient and theatre sessions.