Consultant Gastroenterologist

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a full-time substantive Consultants in Gastroenterology based predominantly at the Northern General Hospital.  This post presents an exceptional opportunity to join the multi-award Sheffield Teaching Hospitals GI Directorate.

The appointee must be a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) or equivalent and is expected to have completed higher specialist training or equivalent in Gastroenterology. It is desirable that the appointee holds or is expected to complete a higher medical degree (i.e. MD or PhD).

Applicants must be on the Specialist Register (for Gastroenterology) or within six months of being admitted to the Register for trainees if currently in a training programme within the UK.

Should any further vacancies arise, shortlisted candidates will be considered.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will, together with Consultant colleagues, be responsible for providing Gastroenterology/Hepatology Services to enable the Sheffield Teaching Hospital to fulfil its service agreements to the Sheffield CCG and other Commissioners.

They will be expected to take part, on a rotational basis, with colleagues with an ‘on ward’ / ‘off ward’ rotation to deliver front door and base ward Gastroenterology/Hepatology care.

It is anticipated that the post holder will have a subspeciality interest that will be encouraged to develop further to compliment the department. A subspeciality interest in Nutrition is strongly encouraged.

The appointee will provide advice to Consultant colleagues on medical issues relating to Gastroenterology/Hepatology.

Clinical research will be strongly encouraged and suitable opportunities exist for an active research programme.

The appointee will be expected to take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate training and, in this respect, as long as they remain a Consultant within the Trust will be regarded as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Sheffield, subject to the regulations of the University.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the supporting job description and person specification which will outline the duties of the role including an indicative job plan.

The Gastroenterology and Hepatology Directorate is led by Dr Barbara Hoeroldt (Clinical Director) and has extensive facilities for outpatient, inpatient and endoscopic activity on both RHH and NGH sites. It is one of the largest in the UK with 23 Luminal Gastroenterologists and 7 Hepatologists. The Academic Unit of Gastroenterology has 6 Professors (honorary academic staff), 2 Senior Lecturers and a Wellcome Fellow. There have been 15 sequential fellows all of whom have had MD’s or PhD’s successfully awarded at the University of Sheffield (each individual published between 10 to 20 peer reviewed publications). The publication and funding track record of the department is over £8 million pounds worth of funding over the 10 year period (a third of which was portfolio) and over 450 publications over a ten year period of which more than 50% are original research papers with novel data.

The department has been recognised both nationally and internationally. Researchers and clinicians within the department have received the European Rising Star Award in GI research (2010), the UK Nutrition Society Cuthbertson Medal (2011), Julie Wallace Memorial Award (2016), Silver Medal (2017) & Bengt Ihre Award (Swedish GI Medal 2017) the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Hopkins Endoscopy Prize (2012, 2017, 2019).

The clinical services are integrated with research programmes and have been equally recognised with the Coeliac UK Healthcare Award (2010) and the inaugural BSG National GI Care awards (2011 & 2014) for the Sheffield Small Bowel Endoscopy Service, GI Bleed service & Primary Care outreach. In 2012 the PEG team won both Health Service Journal primary care and integrated clinical care awards. In 2013 the Coeliac Service has been awarded the inaugural Complete Nutrition Coeliac Health Care Award (2010 & 2016) & Clinical Nutrition Professional of the Year 2017.  The luminal and IBD services were recognised in BMJ and SAGE awards in 2014 and currently hold a prestigious Health Foundation award to redesign services as part of their “Common Ambition” programme.

The areas of clinical research interest are inflammatory bowel disease, small bowel endoscopy, coeliac disease, pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding, irritable bowel syndrome and gastrointestinal bleeding; liver research interest include autoimmune liver disease, cirrhosis and alcohol related liver disease. Although the unit’s strengths have been in clinical research there have been continued and sustained links with basic science collaborators.

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Applications from those unable, for personal reasons, to work on a whole time basis or a job share basis will be considered.

The successful candidate must be registered with the GMC with a valid licence to practice. For further information please visit the GMC website and click on the Registration and Licensing link. You will also have completed Specialist Training (or equivalent) and be entered on the Specialist Register of the GMC, or have a CCT date within six months of the date of interview.