# Upper GI Consultant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** Hull
- **Region:** North East and Yorkshire
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** General Surgery
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 PA PR
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-12T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15T07:51:45.142Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Cottingham/Hull_University_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Digestive_Disease/Digestive_Disease-v8068733
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8068733?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hull.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Hull York Medical School is a partnership between the Universities of Hull and York and the NHS in North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. The school performs well in league tables in recognition of its excellent undergraduate medical curriculum and research, judged to be of high international quality. With a distinctive and innovate approach to training doctors for the health services of the 21st century, HYMS aims to influence positively the recruitment and retention of doctors in the region and the quality of local health services.

### Main duties of the job

- We are looking to recruit a consultant with interest in oesophago-gastric cancer resection. The Oesophago-gastric cancer service covers East Riding of Yorkshire, Humberside and Northern Lincolnshire with a catchment population of approximately 1.1 million. The unit undertakes approximately 70 - 80 oesophago-gastric cancer resections per year.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

## Person Specification

### Clinical Experience

**Essential**

- - Ability to manage a range of acute general surgical conditions and trauma
- - Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

### Personal Attributes

**Essential**

- - Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- - Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- - Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

### Professional Registration

**Essential**

- - GMC Specialist Register for Upper GI

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- - FRCS or equivalent qualification
- - Valid ALS certificate

**Desirable**

- - Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

### Teaching, Audit and Research

**Essential**

- - Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- - Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- - Evidence of participation in audit
- - Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients

**Desirable**

- - Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit

### Management and Administration Experience

**Essential**

- - Ability to lead a smooth and efficient running of the unit
- - Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

**Desirable**

- - Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

## Documents

- [digestive disease (pdf, 609.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10359917)

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