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Job requirements
Essential
31 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Ability
Ability to take full responsibility for independent management of patients
- Ability
Ability to communicate effectively and clearly with patients and other team members
- Experience
Applicants should have a wide experience in gastroenterology, be fully trained and competent in diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower endoscopic procedures, including upper GI endoscopy, oesophageal dilatation, management of upper GI haemorrhage, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy & polypectomy
- Experience
Evidence of a particular interest and experience in endoscopy
- Experience
Experience and commitment to clinical audit
- Experience
Up to date CPD
- Motivation
Evidence of commitment to: patient-focused care
- Motivation
Evidence of commitment to: continuous professional development and life-long learning
- Motivation
Evidence of commitment to: effective and efficient use of resources
- Team Working
Ability to work in a team with colleagues in own and other disciplines
- Team Working
Ability to organise time efficiently and effectively
- Team Working
Reliability
- Team Working
Excellent communication skills
- Teaching and Audit
Evidence of commitment to: clinical audit
- Teaching and Audit
Evidence of commitment to: formal and informal teaching and training of trainee doctors, medical students and other clinical staff
- Teaching and Audit
Evidence of commitment to: learning and continuing professional development
- Teaching and Audit
Evidence of training in clinical and / or educational supervision
- Circumstances of Job
Will be required to work at any of NHS Edinburgh and the Lothian’s sites
- Academic Achievements
Evidence of research activity and presentations
- Qualifications and Training
GMC registered medical practitioner
- Qualifications and Training
Licence to practice
- Qualifications and Training
CCT in GI
- Additional role requirements
Maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice
- Additional role requirements
Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties of the post
- Additional role requirements
Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and respond to their views
- Additional role requirements
Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented
- Additional role requirements
Ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by doctors in training and updated on a regular basis
- Additional role requirements
To work collaboratively with all members of the team
- Additional role requirements
To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams and NHS Lothian and when participating in national or local initiatives
- Additional role requirements
Adhere to NHS Lothian values
- Additional role requirements
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience in managing and developing gastroenterology services (in particular service redesign and the use of emerging technologies to improve patient care)
- Experience
Publications or Post graduate study/degree relevant to this area of GI disease
- Motivation
Desire to develop services for patients
- Team Working
Ability to motivate colleagues
- Team Working
Evidence of previous managerial training and experience
- Teaching and Audit
Experience of designing audits
- Teaching and Audit
Experience of simulation training
- Academic Achievements
Evidence of poster or oral presentations at national or international meetings
- Academic Achievements
Evidence of research and publications in peer reviewed journals
- Qualifications and Training
Additional post-graduate qualifications, e.g. MD/ PhD/MSc
- Qualifications and Training
Additional sub-specialty training
Job details
- Job reference: 260884
- Salary: Locum Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
- Job closing date: 26/10/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Western General Hospital
- Employment type: Fixed-term
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 28/09/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
- Department: Gastroenterology
Locum Consultant Gastroenterologist
Gastroenterology
Base: Post 1 - Western General Hospital (WGH)
Post 2 – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
You will also be required to work at any of NHS Lothian sites.
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Applications are welcome for the above Fixed Term, full time (40 hours per week) post based in 1 x WGH gastroenterology and 1 x RIE Gastroenterology
These 2 posts are 2 year fixed term locum posts necessitated by the large and growing clinical endoscopy and out-patient workload. It will help meet nationally-set waiting time targets for scheduled and unscheduled care. One post will be based at the Gastrointestinal Unit at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and the other at RIE Gastroenterology Unit. Both posts involve both out-patient and in-patient activities. The weekly timetable separates in-patient and out-patient duties. The standard week will include up to four endoscopy lists and an outpatient clinic. Endoscopic sessions will include both upper and lower procedures and the applicant should be fully trained at both. It would be an advantage to have an interest in endoscopy. There may be a commitment to inpatient services. The post-holder will contribute to the out-of-hours cover for GI emergencies. There is no General Internal Medicine commitment. There will be sessional commitments working at other sites in Lothian.
More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.
Closing Date: 26/10/2026
Informal enquiries and visits are welcome and should initially be made to:
Dr Ian Arnott, Clinical Director,
email: ian.arnott@nhs.scot.
Telephone: 01315373115
If viewing from an external site, please visit https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk for a job pack detailing the minimum requirements for this post and details of how to apply.
We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
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