NHS Locum Consultant General Surgeon

Job overview

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is welcoming applications for an NHS Locum Consultant General  Surgeon.

You will provide benign general surgical and upper gastrointestinal surgical services to the community served by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust and to play a key role with colleagues in further developing general surgical services.

You will provide with consultant colleagues a service in general surgery involving in-patient and out-patient work and share in the on-call rota.

This post is to support the development of the General Surgery service. All staff support and ancillary facilities are in place. There will be office space for the post-holder with a dedicated computer and IT facilities and medical secretarial support.

We welcome informal visits and enquiries,

Main duties of the job

• To provide a general surgical service including general surgical elective activity and 1 in 9 on call emergency cover for general surgery.
• To provide elective  surgical service
• Consultants are required to have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper funding of their departments. They are expected to undertake administrative duties that arise from these responsibilities.
• To provide an Outpatients service for new referrals and for ongoing care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this opportunity.