# Consultant in ENT with specialist interest in Head & Neck > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-ent-with-specialist-interest-in-head-and-neck/34e6259d-2f72-4e51-bdef-6361908092aa - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-ent-with-specialist-interest-in-head-and-neck/34e6259d-2f72-4e51-bdef-6361908092aa.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Ipswich Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Ear, Nose and Throat - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113565.00 to £150569.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T16:02:19.138Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8344478 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344478?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are inviting applications for a full time Consultant in ENT with a special interest in Head & Neck Surgery at Ipswich Hospital. The department fosters sub-specialist interest underpinned by some cross site working. The new post holder will be based at Ipswich Hospital and all elective sessions will be at Ipswich Hospital (base hospital) - a shared cross cover on call service provision is in place with Colchester Hospital (21 miles, 40 minutes apart by car) with emergency care alternating between sites on a weekly basis. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will: - Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant led service with the highest standard of care. - Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines. - Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, outpatients and the ED department. - Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care. - Offer educational, clinical support and leadership and junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary. - Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility. - Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained. - Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour are demonstrated. - Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements. - Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the trust’s agreed policy. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be: - Provide cover as an ENT surgeon with a special interest in H&N - To play an active part in education programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the unit. - To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate. - Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for referral to hospital ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Essential **Essential** - Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice - FRCS ORL-HNS or equivalent higher qualification - Entry on Specialist Register (or entry expected within 6 months) - Adequate specialist training in ENT surgery - Experience of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching - Role as a consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks - At least 5 years at HST level (or equivalent) - Ability to lead and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team - Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service - Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities and waiting times / lists - Ability to supervise, appraise, coach and mentor trainee and other doctors - Ability to organise and participate in and evidence of teaching and training undergraduate and postgraduate students - Educational/Clinical Supervisor (the necessary training will be provided for applicants that have not undertaken these roles previously). 0.25 PA per trainee/LED, up to max of 4 **Desirable** - Fellowship - Evidence of work submitted for Peer review - Evidence of having undertaken audit work that has brought about change - Evidence of having undertaken original research - Management training and experience - Live within a 10-mile radius of the relevant hospital site or within 30 minutes’ drive ## Documents - [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724) - [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262) - [job description (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10669080) - [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146) - [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.