Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Job overview

You will provide general and colorectal surgical services to the community served by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust and to play a key role, with colleagues, in further developing general surgical services. You will  provide, alongside consultant colleagues, a service in general surgery involving in-patient and out-patient work and contribute to the on-call rota.

You will support the development of the General Surgery service. All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. There will be office space for the post-holder with a dedicated computer and IT facilities and medical secretarial support.

Since December 2024, we have been performing Robotic colorectal cancer resectional services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital using a state of the art robot, Versius, made by Cambridge Medical Robotics (CMR).

Currently only colorectal teams are performing surgery using this robot. However, our plan is to Introduce Urology by the end of this year and Gynaecology a few months after that.

We expect that the new consultant appointment in colorectal cancer resection surgery will have expertise and interest in Robotic Surgery and will help and facilitate building an even stronger team of Robotic colorectal cancer resectional surgeons at QEH.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a general surgical service including general surgical elective activity and 1 in 9 on call emergency cover for general surgery at QEH.
• To provide elective colorectal surgical service.
• Consultants are required to have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper funding of their departments.
• Undertake administrative duties that arise from clinical responsibilities.
• To provide an outpatients service for new referrals and for ongoing care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on this exciting opportunity to join our General Surgery team.