ENT Consultant

Job overview

We are delighted that you are considering joining our dynamic ENT team. Our department has grown significantly, offering a wide range of specialist services, including general ENT conditions, head and neck clinics, and paediatric ENT. We have also expanded our skin cancer surgery and reconstruction services and maintain close collaboration with other local ENT departments for head and neck care.

Our team comprises talented and dedicated consultants working in a friendly, flexible, and cohesive environment. We are committed to professional development, teaching junior doctors, and supporting evolving specialist interests. We are now seeking to recruit a new consultant, bringing our team to nine, supported by a strong group including a Specialty Doctor, two Registrars, and a Dewax Nurse Specialist.

We offer a structured development and coaching programme for new consultants, with excellent opportunities to develop individual professional portfolios in areas such as education, quality improvement, service development, and specialist clinical interests. We encourage mentorship, collaborative working across the Surrey ENT network, and active involvement in expanding elective ENT services and theatre capacity across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Consultant Level to the Department

Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients in accordance with Trust policies and practices

Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload

Must be able to demonstrate values consistent with the Trust Values Based Behaviours and be willing to develop self to an Exemplary level and act as a role model for others, in relation to patients:

Ability to communicate effectively with them and with other staff to ensure that their care, treatment and support are not compromised

A good understanding of their communication, physical & emotional needs; can identify their individual needs and preferences, their changing needs, recognise and promote their independence

Contribute to the consultant led triage service of all patient referrals

Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate

Engage with medical, nursing, management and all relevant co-workers in the delivery of department objectives: to provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience; ensure the highest quality clinical care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Undertake outpatient clinics and operating lists
• Work harmoniously with other team members including the audiology team, junior medical staff, training grades, speech therapists and nursing staff
• Contribute to clinical multidisciplinary meetings where required
• Partake in the 1 in 8 ENT Consultant on-call rota covering Royal Surrey County Hospital, St Peter’s and Ashford Hospital.

Leadership or managerial

• Instruct and support junior grades and nurses working within outpatient clinics and operating lists
• Involvement with training the Specialty Doctor to help develop their role

Information and reporting

• Undertake research and audit projects to which the appointee will be expected to contribute as well as initiate their own projects
• Attend and contribute to regular educational half days and ENT audit meetings with the Royal Surrey County Hospital staff. These meetings usually take place at Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford.

Service improvement

• It is hoped that the appointee will be able to participate in assisting other staff members in reaching Trust targets by undertaking additional programmed activities
• Support with RTT performance targets

General responsibilities

• To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work