Locum Consultant in Gastroenterology

at  Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Locum Consultant Gastroenterologist. The applicant will join the current team of seven Consultant Gastroenterologists, two Gastroenterology Specialty Doctors, two Nurse Endoscopists, six Upper GI Surgeons and seven Colorectal Surgeons, 3.5 IBD Clinical Nurse Specialists and an Upper GI Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist

The successful candidate will work within the team and the principle duties and responsibilities are:

• Providing OPD services in gastroenterology
• Providing diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI Endoscopy
• Care for inpatients –Speciality based ward [predominately gastroenterology/IBD/hepatology}
• Participate in governance, quality improvement, audit and teaching
• Participate in the Gastroenterology on-call rota 1:8 including services for upper GI bleeding. No GIM commitment

The trust is looking to appoint a locum consultant to join an expanding and progressive department in a busy and innovative DGH. The Gastroenterology Service at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare is based primarily at East Surrey Hospital, Redhill. We provide a full range of endoscopy services which are provided in two endoscopy suites one sited on the East Surrey site and one at Crawley Hospital totalling 6 rooms.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.

For further information, regarding the role please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.
Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a suitable number of appropriate candidates have been received. Interviews will then be arranged accordingly

• Providing OPD services in gastroenterology
• Providing diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower GI Endoscopy
• Care for inpatients –Speciality based ward [predominately gastroenterology/IBD/hepatology}
• Participate in governance, quality improvement, audit and teaching
• Participate in the Gastroenterology on-call rota 1:8 including services for upper GI bleeding. No GIM commitmen