Locum ENT Consultant with Special interest in Laryngology/Voice

Job overview

Applications are invited for the above post to join our expanding ENT team. This is a new post and the successful candidate subspecialty interest in Otology/Balance or Laryngology Voice will complement the department`s needs and future plans. The appointee will join the existing 15 consultants.  An on call commitment will be required.

We’re one of the largest and busiest teaching Trusts in England.  Our three hospitals - the Glenfield, General and the Royal Infirmary – were joined together in 2000.  We employ over 10,000 staff to treat a diverse population of nearly one million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, as well as a further two to three million people from neighbouring counties.  We are fully committed to Continuing Medical Education for consultants.

High quality specialist care particularly in cancer, renal and cardiac services has gained us a national and international reputation. We are at the forefront of many research programmes and new surgical procedures, such as keyhole heart valve surgery and our research into diabetes, genetics and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. We also play a vital role in teaching the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, by working closely with local universities.

Main duties of the job

Principal Elements of the post will be:-

• To Supervise and train junior medical staff
• At LRI we have shared responsibility for beds on wards 9, Day ward, the Kinmonth Unit and paediatric wards
• At LGH we have shared responsibility for beds on Medical Day Case Unit
• Clinical sessions as laid out in the job plan
• Teaching, research and administration.
• Develop the service along with the other ENT Consultants at UHL.
• To take part in the adult & paediatric on call rota.

Other Duties:-

The successful candidate will be required to undertake managerial duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their Clinical Department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Adult ENT patients at LRI are managed on Ward 9 which is a 18 bedded mixed adult ward shared with plastic surgery and maxillofacial surgery. The Kinmonth Unit provides high dependency care for airway patients and patients undergoing head and neck surgery. We also have an Adult Surgical Dayward located on Balmoral Level 2 adjacent to the theatres.

The department of ENT is an extremely busy one, providing a combination of 35 inpatient and day case operating lists with dedicated paediatric theatres. These are all run through the central operating department and Surgical Day Ward.

Our outpatient department is a dedicated ENT department supported by audiology currently based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and with recent expansion into the Elective Care HUB at the Leicester General Hospital with fully equipped individual consulting rooms.

The East Midlands Planned Care Centre (EMPCC) at the Leicester General Hospital consists of two theatres, 21 recovery beds (4 first stage & 17 second stage) and 12 post operative recovery beds with a Medical Day Case Unit consisting of 18 medical daycase treatment areas. The outpatients department has 14 outpatient clinic rooms, 4 procedures rooms & 6 recovery beds.  ENT have 1 all-day extended theatre list 3 times a week, 2 clinic rooms 6 days a week and an audiology booth.

ENT also support community clinics, which are currently run in Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Market Harborough, Hinckley and Coalville.

ENT support a busy Childrens and Adults Emergency department.

Full GMC Registration.