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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Minimum 1 year previous experience in a substantive medical post
- Communication
Ability to communicate with clarity to all hospital staff and patients
- Skills and Abilities
Sound basic clinical skills including history taking, clinical examination and appropriate investigation.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to make and implement management plans and clinical protocols.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to maintain a high quality clinical record.
- Skills and Abilities
Basic personal management skills including time management and managing paperwork satisfactorily.
- Skills and Abilities
Manipulative skills to enable practical procedures
- Specific Requirements
This position has no on call commitment or flexible hours due to patient safety and ward cover.
- Knowledge and Qualifications
MBBS or equivalent Full registration
- Knowledge and Qualifications
Eligible for full registration with GMC at time of appointment and hold a current license to practice.
- Personal and People Development
Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
- Personal and People Development
Ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Personal and People Development
Ability to see patients as people, ability to empathise and work co-operatively with others.
- Personal and People Development
Reliable work record.
- Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Use appropriate language and skills when dealing with all patients.
- Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Ability to use language line or have access to BSL when needed.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills and Abilities
Experience of teaching
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to carry out research
Job overview
This is a 12 month post based at University College Hospital, providing an unique training and experience within a tertiary specialist Nutrition centre with a high volume of patients requiring parenteral and enteral nutritional support. Successful candidates will gain exposure to managing complex patients with intestinal failure (i.e short bowel syndrome, complex IBD, radiation enteropathy) working closely with a highly-skilled multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Our UCLH Gastroenterology unit is one of the largest in the UK, and the post offer exposure to all aspects of Gastroenterology, covered by the 14 Consultants within the department. Subspecialty areas of expertise include clinical nutrition/intestinal failure, oesophagogastric/laser medicine, inflammatory bowel disease, GI physiology and pancreaticobiliary medicine. There are a number of educational meetings run each week, including a journal club, specialist multidisciplinary meetings, a ‘morning report’, and seminars with invited speakers. The department has a committed audit programme. The post holder may also take an active role in undergraduate teaching.
The post would ideally suit an experienced Trust Doctor Foundation year 2 intending to apply for a Gastroenterology Specialist training rotation. Terms and conditions are in line with those nationally agreed.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Please note, due to anticipated high volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
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.
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This advert is for Resident Gastro Doctor with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Junior Medical doctor Gastroenterology role. The advertised salary is £47,610 per annum + London Weighting. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Limited Funding). The application deadline is 04 Oct 2026.
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