ENT Trust Grade Registrar (ST3+)

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join our expanding patient centred and supportive ENT department at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting time to join us with opportunity to support inpatient and outpatient transformation as part of a blended workforce as we develop inpatient and outpatient pathways.

Our ENT service has a small team of 5 consultants, two specialty doctors, two speciality trainees and 6 junior doctors. This role will require the delivery of face-to-face onsite clinical sessions or within a community-based environment. The provision of assessment and management of a range of ENT conditions. Educate patients and their families on conditions, treatment options, and post-operative care. Stay current with advancements in ENT treatments, technologies, and best practices.

This post will provide the successful candidate with excellent experience and training in ENT.

Main duties of the job

Overview

The timetable for this role includes outpatient clinics, theatre session with consultant supervision, ward supervision of the junior team. Sessions would be nominally under one of the consultants and may be required to work at outlying sites, in particular clinics at Fleetwood hospital 7 miles North. You will work with a multi-disciplinary team of specialist and cancer nurses, speech therapists, audiologists and an audiological scientist who runs a well-established balance clinic.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide day-to-day clinical management for a broad range of acute and elective ENT patients.

Co-ordinate the day-to-day care of patients across all wards.

Involvement in complex clinical patient management problems and multi-disciplinary discharge planning

Participate in minor surgery, fast-track clinics, and the out-of-hours a second on-call rota.

To support the screening / review of referred patients from varying clinical services including paediatrics and cardiothoracic.

Engage fully with departmental mortality reviews, clinical audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities.

Support the training, supervision, and development of junior medical staff.

Be on call approximately 1 in 5 non-resident with prospective cover to meet the needs of the service.

Undertake appropriate administrative duties related to clinical practice. Actively contribute to teaching, service development, and continuous professional development programmes. Study leave will be available. Maintain up-to-date compliance with mandatory training and GMC revalidation requirements.