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Job requirements
Essential
25 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
High clinical standard for independent Consultant practice
- Registration
Full GMC registration and licence to practise (or eligible for)
- Leading People
Strong but collaborative leadership abilities, within the multidisciplinary team, across the Trust and in an interagency context.
- Leading People
Experience of implementing service change to enhance the quality of patient care.
- Leading People
Ability to provide consultant level leadership Experience of and ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams • Evidence of leadership skills within multidisciplinary teams. • Ability to organise own workload and prioritise clinical needs • Understanding of NHS, Clinical Governance, and risk management • Able to assess, contain and manage clinical risk and support colleagues in managing risk • Ability to act as mentor to junior medical staff • Act as a role model • Able to demonstrate management skills
- Leading People
Demonstrates an approach based on critical enquiry, evidence-based practice, and the development of practicebased evidence
- Qualifications
Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview (A) Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or equivalent (A) Higher Qualification in specialty i.e. FRCS (A)
- Managing Others
Demonstrates an understanding of management and the specific management issues within an NHS Foundation Trust
- Managing Others
Demonstrates ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with the ability to lead and manage conflict
- Managing Others
Committed to the delivery of operational targets.
- Managing Others
Develops, supports and motivates trainee medical staff
- Clinical Experience
Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in surgery
- Clinical Experience
Ability to offer clinical opinion on a range of problems in Acute and/or Vascular surgery
- Clinical Experience
Experience of supervising Foundation and core trainees
- Clinical Experience
Ability to teach clinical skills
- Clinical Experience
Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Clinical Experience
Experience of audit management
- Research Experience
Understanding of research principles
- Research Experience
Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Teaching & Training
Experience of teaching medical, nursing, and allied health professionals
- Working with Others
Excellent communication and knowledge sharing, both within the multidisciplinary team and externally, and with patients, carers and healthcare professionals as appropriate
- Working with Others
Committed to improving the patient healthcare experience and improving Trust performance
- Working with Others
Projects a positive image and able to challenge negativity, internally and externally
- Working with Others
Empathic and sensitive approach to patient needs.
- Audit & QI Experience
Understanding of clinical audit principles
Desirable
13 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Understanding of GMC's Good Medical Practice guidelines
- Registration
On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of achieving CCT at time of interview
- Leading People
Strategic thinking, risk management, innovation, mentoring and leading multidisciplinary change
- Qualifications
Postgraduate degree (A) Post CCT Fellowship (A)
- Managing Others
Support and development of trainee medical staff
- Clinical Experience
Experience in a specialist area of Vascular & Endovascular surgery (
- Clinical Experience
Experience in a major trauma centre
- Research Experience
Research involvement with publications
- Teaching & Training
PGCE or evidence of education delivery
- Teaching & Training
Train the Trainer qualification
- Teaching & Training
Experience of UG & PG teaching
- Working with Others
Empathic, challenges negativity, improves patient experience
- Audit & QI Experience
Proven audit experience with publication of results
Job overview
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
LOCUM CONSULTANT AORTIC & ENDOVASCULAR SURGEON 12 months
The Liverpool Vascular & Endovascular Service (LiVES) is looking for a Locum Consultant Vascular & Endovascular surgeon to join their growing team that delivers services across the region.
The Directorate of Vascular Surgery currently comprises 15 surgeons working flexibly to support the network. Each consultant has an elective job plan which involves sessions at one of our network sites, in addition to sessions at the Aintree site Hub. A total of 6 Consultants will contribute to the acute/on-call work supporting Liverpool Heart & Chest and they participate in complementary “C1” and “C2” rotas during which they are free of any elective commitments.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
Consultant on Call
All day operating list
Outpatient clinics
A typical week may include 1 all day operating session, 2 outpatient clinics and attendance to 3 MDTs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The unit provides up to date treatment for the full spectrum of vascular disease. Areas of special interest include complex aortic surgery, endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), carotid endarterectomy, treatment of peripheral arterial disease (including complex endovascular, hybrid and distal/ultra-distal bypass surgery), deep venous intervention and thoracic outlet surgery. Endovenous management of varicose veins is undertaken in 3 spoke sites. All arterial surgery is undertaken at Aintree University Hospital hub site.
The successful applicant will become part of the specialist Aortic team, with a total of 5 Consultants contributing. They will undertake work at both Aintree University Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital, participating in the daytime C2 rota at Aintree and the daytime L1 rota at the Heart and Chest hospital. They will be involved in the comprehensive assessment, management and follow up of patients with standard and complex aortic pathologies and will closely work with the cardiothoracic team at the Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital for thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic pathologies. They will also contribute in the realm of general vascular surgery and the management of patients at Aintree University Hospital, the hub site for the service.
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.
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This advert is for Locum Aortic & Endovascular Consultant with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Vascular Surgery role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum. The contract type is 12 months (fixed term 12 months from start date). The application deadline is 20 Oct 2026.
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