Locum Consultant in General Surgery

Job overview

The General Surgical service of the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital is seeking three full-time consultants for a fixed term period of 12 months while substantive recruitment is in process. These are replacement posts and will join a team of ten general surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn site.

The delivery of general and gastrointestinal surgery across Norfolk is in flux with the service at the QEH now being integrated with the department of the Norfolk & Norwich.

This appointment will be to the department of the NNUH in terms of peer support and clinical leadership, but most of these appointments’ clinical work will be delivered at the QEH. More complex surgery will be undertaken at the NNUH site.

This post would be ideal for a candidate who is comfortable in the generality of surgery but feels they would want to continue or develop a sub-specialist interest. Sessions at the NNUH can be tailored to the successful candidate in discussion with the NNUH Service Director.

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Additionally, people with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post. The Trust operates job share and flexible working.

Main duties of the job

The appointment is to the Trust, not to specific hospitals. As above, the majority of day-to-day clinical work, the on-call service (1 in 9 emergency cover for General surgery at QEH) and administration will be delivered at the QEH site. Sessions at the NNUH can be tailored to meet the successful candidate’s requirements, in discussion with the NNUH Service Director.

All consultants, including the appointee, will be expected to be involved in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Governance programme. This includes active participation in clinical audit, quality, clinical guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management.

The appointee will be a member of the Consultant Staff Committee and be expected to serve on this committee

Applicants would be expected to have broad training in general and laparoscopic surgery and be comfortable with the nuances of day case, HVLC (high volume low complexity) surgery.

Applicants with an ambition for service design / quality improvement work would be particularly welcome. For example, the QEH site does not currently offer a hot gallbladder service (which is very well established at the NNUH site) but the successful applicant would be in an ideal position to develop this, supported by the experience of the surgical department at NNUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full details of the post and the person specification.

Full GMC with licence to practise required on application.