# Colorectal Consultant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for 18 Week Support Limited.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** 18 Week Support Limited
- **Location:** 3rd Floor, Dorset and Surrounding, Dorset, EC3R 5AR, United Kingdom
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** General Surgery
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** Negotiable
- **Contract type:** Locum
- **Employment type:** Part-time, Flexible working
- **Closing date:** 2027-01-19T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T09:57:05.656Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/E0341-26-0086
- **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/E0341-26-0086/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=E0341-26-0086
- **Employer website:** https://www.18weeksupport.com/careers/working-with-us/

## Job Content

### Job summary

Are you a Colorectal Consultant looking for additional weekend work? Here at 18 Week Support, we have an exciting opportunity to support a well-established NHS Trust in the Southwest area within a busy Colorectal service.

### Main duties of the job

To provide high-quality, safe and effective assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of patients with colorectal conditions.

### About us

Who We Are:

At 18 Week Support, we are the UKs leading insourcing provider to the NHS. We partner with trusts nationwide to expand clinical capacity, reduce waiting times, and improve patient access to outpatient and surgical care. Clinical excellence and patient safety are at the heart of everything we do.

### Details

- Date posted: 15 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: Depending on experience
- Contract: Locum
- Duration: 3 months
- Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: E0341-26-0086
- Job locations: 3rd Floor, Dorset and Surrounding, Dorset, EC3R 5AR, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

- Assess, diagnose and manage patients with colorectal diseases in outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and emergency settings.
- Perform elective and emergency colorectal surgery, including open, laparoscopic and other appropriate minimally invasive procedures within the surgeons competence.
- Manage colorectal cancer, diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, rectal prolapse, haemorrhoids, anal fistulas, fissures and other benign and malignant conditions.
- Undertake appropriate diagnostic procedures, including colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, where trained and credentialed.
- Provide perioperative care, including preoperative assessment, consent, postoperative monitoring, complication management and follow-up.
- Participate in emergency general surgery rotas and provide specialist advice for acute surgical admissions.
- Coordinate patient care with oncologists, radiologists, gastroenterologists, pathologists, specialist nurses and other relevant professionals.
- Recognise and manage clinical deterioration, escalating care when required.

### UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Essential:
- GMC registration with a licence to practise.
- Current experience working within a surgical setting for a minimum of 6 months within the last 12 months.
- Proven NHS experience.
- Knowledge of colorectal cancer, benign colorectal conditions, perioperative care and relevant clinical guidelines
- Competence in appropriate elective and emergency colorectal procedures
- Excellent communication and multidisciplinary team-working skills.
- Commitment to patient safety, professional development and high-quality clinical care.

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