Locum Consultant in Colorectal Surgery

Job overview

The appointment is for a Locum Consultant in Colorectal Surgery within our friendly and well-established GI Surgical Clinical Management Group at UHL. There will be opportunity to work with colleagues in the development of new and effective patient care pathways in a department which strives to provide excellent services.

This post is designed to support the existing provision of Colorectal surgery.

Key aspects of the role will include emergency Colorectal surgery and support for the general on-call rota. There will be a requirement for the post holder to be involved in emergency care.

You will have the opportunity to discuss personal aspirations and any on-going training requirements which we would look to support and facilitate as part of your continuing professional development whilst in the role

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will support the delivery of high-quality patient care through clinical excellence, supervision, and continuous improvement.

Core Responsibilities

• Diagnose, treat, and manage patient care, ensuring effective departmental function.
• Support colleagues by covering planned absences.
• Contribute to service development with consultants, CMG, GPs, and commissioners.
• Supervise and support junior staff, adhering to Trust HR policies.
• Participate in teaching, training, and assessment of medical staff at all levels.
• Engage in clinical governance, audits, CPD, and attend mandatory meetings.
• Fulfil managerial and financial duties where required.
• Maintain high standards in line with GMC guidance and Trust protocols.
• Respond to Trust requests, including incident or complaint investigations.
• Undertake required induction, appraisal, statutory training, and revalidation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement. -Responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department; -Cover for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences; -To participate in service development and business planning in collaboration with the other Consultants in the department, the CMG and local GPs and commissioners within the local CCGs; -Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff including the observance of local employment and human resource policies and procedures; -Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and nationally; -Participating in medical audit, the Trust’s Clinical Governance processes and in CPD – CPD is provided in job plans and attendance at audit and other governance meetings is mandatory; Managerial, including budgetary responsibilities where appropriate and compliance with standing orders and standing financial instructions of the Trust.; -In line with GMC Good Medical Practice it is the responsibility of the post holder to ensure that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard, and in accordance with current quality initiatives within the area of work. -The post-holder is expected to respond in a timely fashion to legitimate requests from Trust officers – this might include investigations of incidents or complaints. -The post-holder is expected to participate in teaching and training of junior staff and other clinical staff groups. The appointee will also have supervision responsibilities for junior medical staff within the specialty. If appropriate the post-holder will be named in the contract of junior staff as the person responsible for overseeing their training and as an initial source of advice to such doctors regarding their careers. -The post-holder is expected to participate in professional continuing medical education; study leave is provided for this purpose. -The post-holder will be expected to undertake the Trust Corporate and Directorate specific Induction and competency Programmes appropriate to role. -The post-holder will be required to maintain their continuing professional development (CPD) to be able to successfully revalidate. As per the Trust requirement the successful candidate will be required to have annual appraisal and attend / keep fully up to date with statutory and mandatory training as stipulated

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.