Consultant Otolaryngologist

at  Northern Lincolnshire Goole NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic NHS Consultant colleague dedicated to providing high quality patient care. The post is to support the established consultant team in order to provide a comprehensive Consultant served Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
As a senior employee of the Trust the postholders will work in close co-operation with other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. The main responsibilities for each post will be towards managing the local general ORL workload with complimentary subspecialty interest or interests (Otology and Paeditarics ORL) to complement or augment current subspecialties’ across the Trust.
Whilst the NHS Locum Consultant post will be based at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, the post holder may be required to travel to SGH for elective and emergency activity. Travel time and expenses will be provided for this.
The successful post holder will have the opportunity to be appointed as Honorary Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School (HYMS). This honorary appointment is in recognition of contribution to teaching and research and holders of honorary titles may request access to HYMS and University premises and facilities, systems and library services.
Job Description approved by Royal College
AAC Date : 8th January 2025
As a senior employee of the Trust the post-holder will work in close co-operation with, and support, other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements: -
To ensure the provision of a first class clinical service
To provide effective leadership to junior doctors and medical students
To undertake all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s and Operational Group’s services plans
The Trust provides services over three sites; Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, and Goole District Hospital. There are also outpatient services conducted at Louth County Hospital. All the outpatient clinics have microscopes and flexible endoscopes and a range of imaging systems. The Otorhinolaryngological theatres are equipped with imaging, recording and monitoring for a wide range of procedures.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
This post is for a good team player dedicated to high quality patient care. The opportunity exists to work in a non-hierarchical setting and offer a wide range of procedures in this busy Trust. The post holder would be expected to perform general otorhinolaryngological duties with a complimentary special interest. The subspecialty interest will be developed in line with the competencies and preferences of the applicant recognising that tertiary care services are available at Hull, Sheffield and Nottingham teaching hospitals NHS trust.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert
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